As a leading regional operator of a large fleet of vessels, Bihar International Company provides efficient, cost effective and safe transportation solutions and marine services to our customers across various sectors and industries. We have achieved a significant track record of pioneering and maintaining a unique presence in the region with our diverse fleet and highly skilled operations.
Experience and expertise are the cornerstones of our services and we have gained an enviable reputation as trustworthy and dependable partners.

Our success and tradition of excellence is the result of many years of dedication, servicing several strategic and long-standing clients including prominent oil and gas production companies, leading chemical producers, important government utility companies, and global commodity traders.

Our extensive network regards us as competent and trustworthy for reliable deliveries that are on time and on budget. In the decades ahead, we will continue to evolve our strategy, identify opportunities and systems that set new benchmarks and delivers prosperity.

The 60s and 70s were remarkable and transformative decades for Saudi Arabia and our origins can be traced back to this pivotal period when Jeddah Port emerged as a major trading hub for the region. With a forward-thinking vision to harness the immense opportunities of a rapidly developing economy our founder, Mr. Abdulkader Al-Bakri with his sons, established the business in 1972 to offering agency and bunkering services to marine traffic passing or calling at Jeddah.

A significant milestone in our company’s history was the purchase of our first tanker in 1976. This served as a catalyst for the growth and development of Bihar International Company which, nearly four decades later, is now the largest private-sector tanker owner and one of the leading vessel operators in Saudi Arabia.

Over the years, through a series of new-building acquisitions and second-hand purchases, Bihar now operates a fleet of over 30 crude oil tankers, product tankers, chemical carriers, and gas carriers. Furthermore, we also operate a large fleet of offshore vessels that include anchor-handling tug supply vessels, work/maintenance vessels, terminal escort tugs, crew boats, security boats, pilot boats, and numerous other marine assets.

To further enhance our quality and safety standards, we proactively pursue an innovation-led approach to deliver positive and successful results. In 1997, guided by a determination to deliver better, cost efficient shipping solutions to our clients, we pioneered the design of a new generation 47,000 MT DWT Product/Chemical Tanker. Built by Hanjin Heavy Industries in Korea, M/T QUDS, was the first in series and, following delivery, she was accredited by the U.K.’s Royal Institution of Naval Architects as the “Significant Ship of 2000″ – a great achievement for our company.

Harnessing feedback from early operations of the first in series, an enhanced and improved version of the design was commissioned and M/T BORAQ was built and delivered by Hyundai Mipo Shipyard, Korea in 2003 and was awarded the same prestigious accreditation. The award-winning designs embodied reliability, high safety standards, and extensive operational flexibility for which Bihar is renowned. This series became the accepted industry standard for IMO II chemical tankers built at shipyards in Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.

This recognition spurred us to excel and today, Bihar continues to develop new generation tankers that offer cargo owners and charterers improved flexibility, greater economies of scale, and environmentally friendly solutions for their transportation needs.

The latest in-house IMO2 ‘High-Cube’ MR design is based on a wide beam, shallow draft hull form and incorporates the latest regulatory requirements together with state-of-the-art equipment and machinery such as the latest low speed main engine and auxiliary engine designs meeting TIER III emission limits for NOx. Other advanced features include scrubbers and ballast water treatment systems and best available fuel-saving technologies including optimised hull form, ducted/high efficiency propellers, rudder bulb and the latest low-friction antifouling systems. The result is dramatically improved energy efficiency, which will, among other things, reduce fuel consumption by up to 15% compared with even the most efficient, conventionally designed vessels.