Elsewhere in the region…

PORT RASHID

Dubai’s new cruise terminal at Port Rashid – officially opened last month and featuring traditional Arabic architecture including domes, arches and carvings – can accommodate four ships simultaneously.

Inside, cruise ship passengers have access to currency exchange facilities, a post office, ATMs, a duty free shop, VIP lounge and a wi-fi-equipped business centre.

Information counters are manned “around the clock when cruise ships are berthed and government services such as customs, immigration and police also have offices at the terminal,” officials told DPC.

LAMU

China will finance the building of a port at Lamu in Kenya in what’s widely seen as a bid to secure an additional export gateway for its extensive south Sudan oil interests. The Chinese will also pay for a transport corridor and upgrade a railway linking Mombasa to the Ugandan capital. The port project was originally to have been financed by Qatar under a deal to lease portions of arable land to the Gulf state, but the ag ...