VOL. XLVI

No 33

18-August-2003

KUWAIT

Kuwait Cabinet To Review $850Mn Bubiyan Port Project

The Council of Ministers is to study a feasibility report on a proposed project to construct a port at Bubiyan, an island in northern Kuwait at an estimated cost of $850mn. The decision to press ahead with studies into the project was taken in the light of the change of regime in Iraq and the subsequent expectation of a big increase in the volume of container shipping in the northern Gulf region with...