article_snippet: Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with plans to complete building work on a new megacity in the desert.
article_snippet: Plans include a port, industrial complex, a financial island, beach facilities and residential neighbourhoods.
article_snippet: Cranes stand beside new high rise buildings under construction in the King Abdullah financial district of Riyadh .
article_snippet: The  city will also open up transport links around the kingdom and internationally.
article_snippet: A group look at a model of the planned city which aims to create one of the world's largest ports . '
article_snippet: We aim to create one of the world's largest ports,' Rayan Bukhari, a young manager at the King Abdullah port told the BBC. '
article_snippet: We're not competing with Jeddah's Islamic port - but We are going to take business away from Jebel Ali in Dubai.
article_snippet: Freight arriving at the King Abdullah port will be taken directly to the capital via the new land bridge,' King Abdullah says, 'At the moment lots of products destined for Riyadh are shipped to Dubai, but that will change.
article_snippet: At the moment Mecca is