Posted on 10/10/2007 1:35:19 PM PDT by Squidpup
Dubai: The city on Tuesday unveiled a 75-km canal that will reshape the southern part of Dubai and transform the massive Jebel Ali landmass into an island.
New Dubai's latest mega-project, Arabian Canal, will be one of the world's biggest and most expensive engineering feats, costing $61 billion (about Dh224 billion).
The giant project will be built in two parts - an $11 billion, 75km canal which will snake from the Palm Jebel Ali to the Palm Jumeirah and a $50 billion "city within a city" that will cover 20,000 hectares along the canal's southern flank.
Developed by Limitless, the global real estate arm of Dubai World, the project will transform the arid terrain that stretches from the outskirts of New Dubai to Jebel Ali.
"Arabian Canal will, without question, be one of the wonders of the engineering world," said Saeed Ahmad Saeed, chief executive officer of Limitless.
Up to 150 metres wide and six metres deep, the canal will flow inland from Dubai Waterfront, passing to the east of the new Dubai World Central International Airport before turning back towards Palm Jumeirah.
At a glance
75km is the total length of the Arabian Canal $11b is the cost of the first phase of the project $50b is the expenditure for the second phase 2010 is the year of completing the entire canal project
Dubai...what the Middle East could be if they’d stop blowing each other up.
I saw the show on Dubai the other night on TV. Did you see it? I don’t remember what channel it was on......
Is ‘The World’ finished? If so, it looks as if it is already eroding.
Do they get hurricanes in this part of the world?
That’s what I was wondering too.
“Dubai...what the Middle East could be if they’d stop blowing each other up.”
Most of the oil money is a result of the fact that we ourselves are unwilling to develop our own oil resources. Our environmentalists have made the Middle East as rich as they are.
Not much of a draft.
5.56mm
Just a few weeks back, there was one of these in the region.
Super-cyclone "Gonu" at the Arabian Peninsula. [Equivalent to Cat. 5 hurricane]
Dubai, projects that we could build in the US if it wasn’t for environmentalists.
This picture is a blend of satellite view and artistic rendering - I wouldn’t trust the details. That said, I think they have completed the landforming of The World and are looking for buyers/developers.
“Usually” doesn’t apply in Dubai. Looks like it is intended to provide more waterfront property and yacht access.
Looks from the map to be a combination of those things, plus irrigation (desalination?) well inland.
Big project.
I would rather see them invest their windfall profit from $3.00 / gallon gasoline on projects like this instead of building uncountable Wahabi mosques throughout the Christian world and bankrolling the spread of radical Islam as do the Saudis.
Dubai actually seems to be fairly well squared-away, as middle eastern countries go. One thing they have figured out is that they need to diversify their economy away from oil production. They've jumped into diverse businesses with both feet-- and they appear to be really good at it. Dubai looks to be a growing economic power in coming decades.
Dubai World is becoming a massive world-class conglomerate that has competencies in all sorts of different things.
Great Gravy! Check out “Dubailand”:
http://www.dubailand.ae/home.html#
Three— count ‘em— THREE BILLION square feet of theme parks and attractions.
Holey moley.
Who would be funding these entities? It might not be so simple as a bunch of hippies blinded by utopic vision.
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