SAUDI ARABIA - BAHRAIN

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain Form Causeway Authority

The Saudi and Bahraini Governments on 25 December signed an agreement setting up the General Organization for the Bahraini-Saudi Causeway - the joint venture authority which is to operate the 25 km. causeway project between the two Gulf states. The causeway, whose estimated cost of $800mn was financed by Saudi Arabia, is scheduled for technical completion by April 1986 with commissioning planned for December. Ballast...