Word: jubail
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...careful planning and delivery scheduling, which seeks to avoid supply shortages and transportation interruptions that can produce budget overruns and delays. Indeed, while port operations in many developing countries frequently lead to congestion that leaves ships queuing for months on end, Saudi officials boast that demurrage (delay time) at Jubail is "not a single...
Over the long haul, however, getting Jubail to work and function as a thriving industrial metropolis could turn out to be every bit as challenging as building the city. For one thing, Jubail's planned industries will be cranking out a prodigious supply of basic industrial products that many experts argue the world has too much of already...
Currently under construction in Jubail's industrial park are a $1 billion oil refinery, a $300 million petrochemical plant, a $2 billion polyethylene project, a $4 billion industrial chemicals plant, a $600 million iron and steel complex, and a $360 million plant to produce fertilizer pellets. In most of those industries, worldwide production gluts already abound, though a pickup in the global economy would help stimulate demand at least somewhat in consuming countries. Mean while, however, the Saudis have already been forced to cancel plans for a 225,000-ton-per-year aluminum smelter, and additional retrenchment may eventually...
...really don't have the same economic strains in the modernization process. The government has kept inflation to around 8% a year, and there simply isn't any unemployment." Even so, it is not all that certain that the tradition-minded Saudis will want to move to Jubail in the first place. By and large, educated Saudis display a desire to remain in wealthy metropolises like Jidda, Riyadh and Dhahran, where easy money is to be found and white-collar jobs are plentiful. Yet to equip less-educated and poorer Saudis for the employment challenges of Jubail will...
Moreover, Saudi social scientists warn of the lack of any sort of precedent for the migration of Saudi families in pursuit of employment. Even in a culture that has advanced from camels to Cadillacs since the discovery of oil, Jubail may remain an uncomfortable place for the mass of the Saudi population. And since the government has no plans for enforced migration of workers, an effort that would doubtless enrage every fiercely independent Saudi in the country, residents will have to move voluntarily. Otherwise, the infant city could wind up becoming an enormously expensive ghost town...