ROME: Saudi Transport Minister Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser said the contingency measures activated during the Iran crisis were the result of years of planning, and not reactive.
“What we have been doing is not a reaction to what has happened,” Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser said during a panel discussion at FII Priority Europe on Thursday titled “Tariffs, trade and the new geo-economic order.”
“We are progressing on implementing our vision (and) we will continue to implement our plans,” he added.
“Today is this crisis, tomorrow is a pandemic or anything else, we have to be ready for any situation, but we have to be able not to get diverted or derailed from implementing our plans.”
Al-Jasser said the Kingdom had drawn lessons from the 2013 Red Sea disruption, when a security incident involving a passing container ship raised concerns over the waterway and the Suez Canal.
