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Limitless, a global master development arm of Dubai World, will manage the design and construction of the Arabian Canal – the largest, most complex civil engineering project ever undertaken in the Middle East.
The $11 billion project – on show at Cityscape Dubai (Limitless stand ZB20) this week – involves creating a 75km man-made waterway, which will flow inland from Dubai Waterfront, passing to the east of the new Dubai World Central International Airport before turning back towards Palm Jumeirah.
Upto 150 metres wide and six metres deep, it will be able to accommodate boats up to 40 metres long.
The project will take around three years to complete, with work due to start in December this year.
Saeed Ahmed Saeed, chief executive officer of Limitless, said: “Arabian Canal draws on our key strengths of innovative engineering and master planning distinctive developments.
“It will involve digging and moving more than a million cubic metres of earth every day.
“Arabian Canal will, without question, be one of the wonders of the engineering world.”
