Dubai issues tender for Al-Maktoum airport superstructure packages.

The article focuses on recent infrastructure and development projects in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, highlighting key tenders and agreements. Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Holding Company (Matarat), through the National Centre for Privatisation and Public-Private Partnership (PPP), has issued an expre...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	MEED Business Review Vol. 11; no. 3; p. 59
Main Author:	Iqbal, Yasir
Format:	Article
Published:	MEED Media FZ LLC Mar2026
Subjects:	Airport expansion Public transit Airports Infrastructure (Economics) Structural frames Public-private sector cooperation Dubai (United Arab Emirates) United Arab Emirates Arabian Peninsula
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article focuses on recent infrastructure and development projects in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, highlighting key tenders and agreements. Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Holding Company (Matarat), through the National Centre for Privatisation and Public-Private Partnership (PPP), has issued an expression of interest for redeveloping Prince Naif Bin Abdulaziz International Airport in the Qassim Region on a design, finance, construct, operate, maintain, and transfer basis. Additionally, Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects (DAEP) has tendered superstructure contracts for the expansion of Al-Maktoum International Airport, including a new West Terminal with a 45 million passenger capacity and an automated people-mover system. The article also notes prior developments such as prequalification for the Taif International Airport project in Saudi Arabia.