Melissa Blake

Built World

Running day-to-day port operations

Saudi Arabia announced NEOM in 2017 as a 26,000-square-kilometer city of the future on the Red Sea, headlined by THE LINE — a 170-kilometer ribbon of mirrored 500-meter walls. Nine years and roughly $500 billion of headline budget later, the picture in 2026 has split in two. THE LINE is paused at a 2.4-kilometer foundation. The Port of NEOM, in the industrial city of Oxagon, has just commissioned its first container terminal.

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