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First phase of New Doha Port to cost $4.5bn

The First Phase of the New Doha Port, which has a capacity of 1,100 big commercial ships and 3,500 maritime provision and maintenance ships, is estimated to cost $4.5bn, according to Abdullah Al Khanji, Director of Marine Services Department in the Customs and Ports General Authority. The Peninsula - 08May 06:14GMT
Dolphin project to be launched next week

More than 500 officials and oil executives from the UAE and other countries will converge on the giant Qatari Ras Lafan industrial city next week for the formal inauguration of the Dolphin project, the first major trans-Gulf gas line. Emirates Business 24/7 - 08May 05:18GMT
South Africa in market for gas imports from Qatar

South African President Thabo Mbeki said that his country seeks to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar. AFP - 08May 05:04GMT
Barwa Buys Land in Sudan

Barwa International Company, the global arm of Barwa Real Estate Company, has bought a large land in Sudan for developing a commercial and residential project. The land deal was finalised on the 3rd of this month, in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. Press Release - 07May 11:42GMT
Qatar Airways Plans $30 Billion Future Expansion

Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker spoke of the airline's aggressive expansion plans over the next few years highlighting orders for more than 200 aircraft worth over US$30 billion. Press Release - 07May 10:46GMT
Takaful firm on the way

The Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its Qatari counterpart signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a joint Islamic insurance company. Bahrain Tribune - 07May 08:39GMT
Qatar: Mobile meteorological unit launched

The modernisation project of the Department of Meteorology, under the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), took a step ahead with the inauguration of a Mobile Meteorological Assistance unit. The Peninsula - 07May 08:34GMT
UK legal professionals to aid Qatari law firms

In a bid to establish links and build professional relationship with the local legal professionals, a six-member delegation from the Bar Council of England is on a three-day visit to Qatar. The Peninsula - 07May 08:33GMT
Qatar to hire 30,000 Pak workers this year

Qatar would hire 30,000 skilled and semi-skilled workers from Pakistan this year. Gulf Times says both sides have signed an additional protocol pertaining to the labour agreement, which was inked in 1987 to regulate manpower export to Qatar. Bahrain Tribune - 07May 06:59GMT
$3 Billion Causeway Contract Signed In Bahrain

Paris-based Vinci Construction Grands Projets, leader of a consortium of construction companies, and Middle East Dredging Company, Medco have signed a $3 billion design-build contract for the causeway between Qatar and Bahrain with the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway Foundation. Bahrain Tribune - 07May 06:49GMT

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