arabianbusiness.com, Tuesday 1 Jun 2010
Abu Dhabi Ports, DP World Ink $3.5bn Khalifa JV
Lucrative: Construction of Khalifa Port will cost about $3.5bn, all of which
will be funded by the government of Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi, Vivian Salama:
Abu Dhabi Ports, master developer of ports and industrial zones in the Gulf Arab
emirate, and DP World have teamed up to create a joint venture to operate
Khalifa Port at Taweelah.
“There will be a new company called Emirates Ports Company, a new ownership
between Abu Dhabi and Dubai,” Tawfeeq al Mubarak, acting chief executive officer
of Abu Dhabi Ports said in an interview in Shanghai today. “It is very important
to adopt one port strategy.”
Construction of Khalifa Port will cost about AED13bn ($3.5bn), al Mubarak said,
all of which will be funded by the government of Abu Dhabi, an oil exporter.
(Bloomberg)