Qatar-Bahrain causeway faces delay, says minister

The proposed multi-billion dollar Qatar-Bahrain causeway project has run into rough weather due to escalating costs and is now expected to be ready only a little before the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The cost of the project, according to Bahrain, soared in the aftermath of the world financial turbulence so it has been referred for a review. “After the onset of the world financial crisis we discovered that the cost of the project was very high, so we are reviewing the project and waiting for its findings,” Bahrain’s foreign minister has said.
The question now is what the cost of the project would be, and when the work would begin, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said in an interview to Al Sharq.

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