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Doha: Giant project for 2022 FIFA World Cup

The long initial stage up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the new alignment of the master plan „Qatar National Vision 2030“ encouraging investments into the future of the country gave rise to more doubts regarding the fact whether the optimism of the last years was realistic at all. Projects such as the new international airport of Doha scheduled to open these days, the currently large number of infrastructure contracts and the huge new port project of Doha show that the State of Qatar really wants to make a difference.

The existing port in the center of the city is regarded as the greatest...

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