Saudi Arabia to Spend $400 Billion on Infrastructure Projects

DUBAI - Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest supplier of oil, plans to spend $400 billion on infrastructure projects in the next five years as the kingdom seeks to benefit from lower construction costs amid the global financial crunch.

By (Bloomberg)

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Published: Tue 3 Feb 2009, 1:00 AM

Last updated: Sun 5 Apr 2015, 9:34 PM

“We are talking now about much less construction cost because of the drop in the prices of steel, cement and other building materials,ì Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority Governor Amr Al Dabbagh said in an interview in Davos, the Swiss Alpine resort that hosted the World Economic Forum.

Saudi Arabian companies have cut steel and commodity prices as the first simultaneous recession for six decades in the US, Japan and Germany weakened demand for their products. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, the kingdom’s largest steelmaker, reduced its domestic steel prices last quarter as orders for building materials slowed in the Arab world’s largest economy.

Saudi Arabia is now “accelerating infrastructure development projects to take advantage of surplus capacity,” Al Dabbagh said.


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