Melissa Blake

Built World

As of May 2026: 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, with THE LINE — a 170-kilometer ribbon of 500-meter mirrored walls — as its flagship. Nine years and roughly $500 billion later, the 2026 reality is split: THE LINE is paused at a 2.4-kilometer foundation while the Port of NEOM commissioned its first container terminal in industrial Oxagon.

Updated May 31