Friendship Bridge mega-project ‘cancelled’

Rising tensions between the two neighbours and complications involving Saudi Arabia, rather than any financial or technical issues, may have led to the estimated $4.5bn Friendship Bridge between Bahrain and Qatar being cancelled, GSN was told – although financial strains were also apparent in the mega-project. A source in Doha said the project was cancelled in early June, although it “has already cost millions of dollars and over 300 companies are involved. Relationships between Bahrain and Qatar are poor and KSA is claiming a strip of sea the bridge was to go through.”