UAE sets out to turn Jordanian beach property into luxury resort
The UAE is moving ahead with plans to transform a piece of Jordan’s Red Sea beachfront into a luxury resort.
MAG Group, a subsidiary of ADQ’s AD Ports Group that was appointed on Sunday as the project’s developer, said it will soon begin work on the Marsa Zayed property in the southern port city of Aqaba, which abuts the Saudi border.
In the first phase, MAG will begin construction on what will be called the Zayed Riviera with four residential towers, a yacht club, and restoration of the Aqaba Minaret.
The Jordanian project could potentially link to similar planned resorts in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel that form a border-traversing horseshoe around the Red Sea.
Special forces enter Jordan for defense industry conference
Jordan takes center stage this week in the largely secret realm of the world’s military special forces as it hosts a defense industry conference in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba.
The Special Operations Forces Exhibition and Conference, or SOFEX, kicked off on Tuesday with an address by King Abdullah II and more than 300 defense and security companies from 73 companies displaying equipment and services.
The three-day conference will feature a mock sea operation exercise led by Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah, who serves as Deputy Commander of the 101st Special Unit of the King Abdullah II Special Forces Group.
Meanwhile, the first Egyptian International Airshow took off at the Al Alamein airport on the country’s northern Mediterranean coast. Among the participants from 100 countries are 300 companies, including aerospace manufacturers from the U.S., France, the U.K., Germany, Russia, China and Turkey.
