VOL. XLIV

No. 26

25-June-2001

QATAR

Qatar To Set Up $137Mn Industrial Zone To Boost Private Sector Investment

Qatars Energy and Industry Minister 'Abd Allah al-'Attiyah has announced the awarding of two contracts one to a Qatari firm, the second to a Turkish company to install the water and gas distribution network for a third industrial zone, estimated at a total cost of QR500mn ($137mn). Infrastructure work for the zone, which is to be situated on an 11 sq km area west of Doha, is expected to...