Doha and Manama have concluded an agreement to go ahead with the long-planned Bahrain-Qatar causeway. They have also agreed to establish a special purpose company to implement the scheme.
Doha and Manama have concluded an agreement to go ahead with the long-planned Bahrain-Qatar causeway. They have also agreed to establish a special purpose company to implement the scheme.Project costs are now estimated at $3,000 million. The link will run from the west coast of Qatar, near Zubairah, to Askar in eastern Bahrain. Denmark's COWI carried out an initial feasibility study on the 40-kilometre link (MEED 21:1:05).The deal was signed on 11 June during a meeting in the Bahraini capital between Qatar's Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and his Bahraini counterpart Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa.There has been talk of associating the causeway with a pipeline supplying Bahrain with Qatari gas. However, following the meeting, officials said that a gas supply agreement required further studies.
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