SAUDI PROJECTS
November 1st, 2004
Keith NuthallTHE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, has agreed to advise the Saudi Presidency of Civil Aviation in securing private investment for two projects improving the King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah. One plan will rehabilitate or replace the airport desalination plant that currently supplies too little water, expensively and unreliably. The other scheme involves expanding the existing Hajj terminal, dedicated to religious tourism to nearby Mecca. Its facilities, said the IFC, are too small and of poor quality. The Saudi ...
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