VOL. XXXII

NO. 14

9-JANUARY-1989

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Ministry Licenses Yanbu' Aluminum Smelter Project

The Saudi Ministry of Industry and Electricity has issued a ministerialdecision to license the construction of a SR2,400mn ($640mn) aluminum smelter atthe Red Sea industrial town of Yanbu'. The project is being set up by a groupof Saudi and Gulf private investors including the Saudi Cable Company and theNational Industrialization Company (NIC) and part of the project's sharecapital of SR600mn...