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Kuwait City Kuwait has invited bids for building the first phase of a state-of-the-art container port on Bubiyan Island at a cost of around $2 billion, the emirate's public works minister said

About 17 international and local companies have been prequalified for the project which is expected to start operations by the end of 2008, Bader Al Humaidi said

The first phase involves building a 34-km road linking the new port to Iraq's Umm Qasr port, dredging ...

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