01 August 2015

Qatar has unveiled plans for the biggest industrial and logistic project in the southern part of the country featuring more than 1,850 plots stretching across 6.3 million sq m of land, a report said.

The project, which will feature assembling facilities, showrooms and shops, commercial offices, labour camps, workshops, warehouses, service centres and depots, will be developed in Al Wakra, Birkat Al Awamir and Aba Salil, reported The Peninsula.

An infrastructure network of roads, electricity and water connections, as well as a fire brigade, civil defence, vehicle parking, supermarkets and pharmacies will support the project, the report said.

The project is near Hamad Port, Mesaeed Industrial Area.

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