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Rumour Has It · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Third Rock

Has anyone heard anything about the new Bahrain - Qatar Causeway? One of my students told this yesterday.... is it true ?

Stephen Jones · Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 4124

http://www.middleastlogistics.com/topnews.asp?id=2672

dunedude · Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 8

Not just a rumour. Not strictly a causeway, more a series of bridges linked to roads on floating caissons, it's due for completion in 2013. Look up QATAR, BAHRAIN and CAUSEWAY on google and you'll find pictures.

"Due for completion" of course has to be interpreted in the Qatari context.

wilberforce · Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 647

The construction works on Qatar- Bahrain causeway, stretching 40kms (25miles) in length is expected in May next year, costing two billion dollars.

An MOU to the effect has already been entered into between the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway Foundation (QBCF) and a consortium led by Qatari Diar (state owned) and Vinci, the French Construction firm.

The QBCF Chairman, Ahmad Hassan Al-Hammadi said that works are expected to commence seven months from now, after the signing of the preliminary agreement, and that the new link is scheduled for completion by 2011.

The Causeway will provide both rail and road connections between Bahrain island, and Qatari peninsula. The new link, dubbed as �the Friendship Causeway� was partly conceived as a symbol of improved relations between the two Gulf States, which clashed over decades-old territorial dispute during the year 1986.

The agreement for building the bridge was entered into after the Hawar Islands dispute was resolved by the International Court of Justice in March 2001.

Both the countries are strong allies of the United States. While Qatar is home to two US bases, Bahrain is home to the US Navy�s Fifth Fleet.

http://www.onlineqatar.com/property/104-Construction-works-on-Qatar-Bahrain-causeway-scheduled-for-next-May.htm