kuwait turns silk road into massive causeway
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to revive the ancient Silk Road trade route.

Kuwait turns Silk Road into massive causeway

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A general view of a construction site of the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway
Kuwait City - Arab Today

Kuwait is building one of the world’s longest causeways to its remote north where it will pump billions into Silk City, aiming to revive the ancient Silk Road trade route.
The oil-rich country is eager to inject life into the uninhabited Subbiya region on its northern tip that has been chosen as the location for Silk City.
The plan is to reinvigorate the ancient Silk Road trade route by establishing a major free-trade zone linking the Gulf to Central Asia and Europe.
The 36-km bridge, three-quarters of it over water, will cut the driving time between Kuwait City and Subbiya to 20-25 minutes from 90 minutes now.
Investment in the Silk City project is expected to top $100 billion, and a 5,000-megawatt (MW) power plant has already been built in Subbiya.
At a cost of 904 million dinars ($3 billion), the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway, named after the emir who died in January 2006, is one of the largest infrastructure ventures in the region.
It is already nearly three-quarters completed. Despite the sharp drop in oil income, which made up 95 percent of public revenues, Kuwait has pledged to keep spending on capital projects almost intact.
Kuwait boasts a $600-billion sovereign wealth fund, and is in the middle of a five-year development plan stipulating investments worth $115 billion.
“The causeway project is a strategic link connecting Kuwait City to the northern region,” said Ahmad Al-Hassan, assistant undersecretary for road engineering at the Public Works Ministry.
He told AFP that in addition to the fully integrated residential Silk City, other economic ventures are planned for Subbiya and its surroundings.
A large container port is also under construction on nearby Bubiyan, Kuwait’s largest island.
Completing the causeway and harbor projects will pave the way for transforming the area into a commercial and investment hub with a free-trade zone planned on five small islands nearby.
The causeway project consists of the main bridge north to Subbiya and a 12.4-km bridge running west, dubbed the Doha Link.
The two bridges start from the same point at Shuwaikh Port, the country’s main commercial port.
“If we take the Subbiya Bridge alone, it is the fourth longest in the world,” Al-Hassan said.
The two Kuwaiti bridges are scheduled for completion in November next year, project engineer Mai Al-Messad said.
“We have already completed 73 percent of the project and hope to finish it ahead of the contractual period,” Al-Messad told AFP.
The Subbiya Bridge sits on more than 1,500 piles with a diameter of up to 3 meters each, some of which have been driven as deep as 72 meters into the loose clay seabed, Al-Messad said.
The bridge is between 9m and 23m above sea level.
The Silk City project itself has been proceeding at a slow pace, but the government recently sent a draft bill to Parliament to establish a special authority to oversee development in the area.
Under the original blueprint, the city’s completion date was 2030 and was to include a 1,001-m tower and a population of 700,000.

Source: Arab News

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