After years of waiting, the Kuwaiti government is set to start work on the US$2.6.bn project to build a 36km causeway to connect the southern Shuwaikh port with the north of the country.
One of a raft of projects approved by the ruling emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, in 2010, political wrangling and weighty bureaucracy led to lengthy stalling of the building-work. But the government recently signed a contract with South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co to design and build the causeway within the next five years, starting later this year.
Currently freight trucks have been forced to navigate dusty roads full of potholes as they go in and out of Kuwait’s busiest port, enduring traffic jams as they go into surrounding streets.
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