EGYPT BUILT AIRPORT CITY AROUND CAIRO INTERNATIONAL
May 1st, 2013
THE EGYPTIAN government has unveiled plans to construct an “airport city” around Cairo International Airport. The country’s civil aviation minister Samir Embaby Mewaly said the project would involve the investment of USD20 billion and would involve the development of 10 million square metres of land around the airport, to the east of central Cairo. Mewaly told a Cairo press conference: “The project would take five to eight years and provide 30,000 direct jobs and 70,000 indirect jobs.” Development would include factories, offices and workshops, ...
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