New projects worth $14.7bn have been announced so far this year in Qatar and they are part of infrastructural works worth more than $220bn to be executed before the FIFA World Cup takes place in 2022.
While addressing the opening session of the Gulf Engineering Forum, Dr Khalil al-Ibrahim said massive infrastructure building activities are underway in various parts of the Gulf and Qatar.
This year alone, infrastructural projects worth more than $14.7bn have been announced in Qatar. Many more ongoing projects and expansion works are also underway, he said while mentioning that Hamad International Airport (HIA) alone would cost somewhere in the region of $10.5bn. Other major projects such as the Doha Metro, Express Highway projects, New Doha Port, World Cup Stadiums and Orbital Track Road are among the new projects currently being executed in the country, said the forum official in his address.
In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, new projects worth $35bn are underway now. UAE ($24.7bn) comes next and Kuwait has also announced projects worth $4.7bn. Sultanate of Oman ($4.5bn) and Bahrain ($1.3bn) too are going ahead with newly announced projects.
The main conference was inaugurated by Minister of Municipalities and Urban Planning HE Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani. The minister and other senior officials toured a exhibition being held as part of the conference.
HE Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani at the inauguration of the exhibition
