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Jubail Industrial City, which rose from the sands three decades ago, is poised to double in size at a cost of $3.8 billion for infrastructure alone

Thirty years ago, Saudi Arabia launched a project to build a city from the sand up. Today, that city is an industrial capital with a population of more than 100,000 that accounts for more than seven per cent of the kingdom's gross domestic product (GDP), where wooden dhows have made way for container ships and a single pier has evolved into a bustling industrial port that serves 38 primary and secondary industries

Jubail Industrial City is one of the world's largest civil ...

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