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FOCUS QATARFOCUS QATAR BUSES Mowasalat s public transport buses are operating on 39 routes during weekdays and 41 routes on weekends The buses which in total have more than 1 000 scheduled stops daily are operating for 19 hours Mowasalat is also operating close to 2 000 buses for ferrying school children with another 700 buses scheduled to be added to the fleet by the end of this year The company also launched more than 65 CNG run buses last year in support of the country s ambitious plans to promote a healthy environment wEST Bay ShUTTLE BUSES The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning MMUP has launched a new shuttle service in the Dafna West Bay area of Doha in an attempt to both ease congestion around the crowded skyscraper district as well as boost tourism The new service called West Bay Bus will shuttle passengers around free of charge between 6am midnight daily Mowasalat will operate 14 buses for the service which are scheduled to reach stops every 15 minutes There are 36 bus stops around the West Bay area along two routes Doha hoP oN hoP oFF BUS Recently a new opportunity has been added to Doha s public transportation system Doha Bus tours are the first open top bus sightseeing tour of Doha designed to provide a flexible way to discover the city The open top sightseeing tour takes tourists on a vivid journey Guests have the ability to hop on and off at any of the stops or stay on board for the full tour provided in 7 different languages TaxIS Qatar will have at least 4 000 taxis in service by the end of this year Originally there were just the grey roofed Karwa taxis followed by the maroon roofed Al Million and blue roofed Al Ijarah taxis The new franchising companies are Ibn Ajayan Trading Group and Profit Trading Contracting Company Profit Trading Contracting Company is planning to hit Doha roads in May 2014 and Ibn Ajayan Trading Group is looking at a starting date in August or September 2014 The roofs of the new taxis will be painted in colours different from the two existing Karwa franchisees and are expected to be distinguished by the colours green and yellow waTEr TaxIS Mowasalat has said a new QR30 million USD 8 24 million water transit service linking Lusail the airport Banana Island and the West Bay Pearl area should launch by the end of 2014 A soft launch of the service will be with two 50 to 60 foot yachts which would contain some 30 to 70 passenger seats Additional boats would later be added to Karwa s fleet as more residents move into homes in Lusail and the Pearl Qatar which currently offers a water shuttle service within Porto Arabia s Marina NEw Doha PorT ProjEcT The capacity of the current Doha Port is not sufficient for Qatar s growing economic needs Therefore a new port is under construction Up to 2 million containers can be handled by the New Doha Port NDP Already 33 of the construction has been finished and the 7 4 billion USD NDP project is scheduled for completion in 2016 The current Doha Port is expected to be turned into a cruise ship terminal after shifting the commercial freight transportation to NDP The management of the NDP welcomes the participation of German companies in the open tenders for the development of the project Current tenders include packages for port security general port equipment port vessels as well as the development of a centralized customs inspection area and an additional access bridge The NDP management is in particular looking for companies specialized in general port management hamaD INTErNaTIoNaL aIrPorT hIa The HIA has been built 5 km east of the current airport Doha International Airport The new airport USD15 5bn is spread over an area of 3 600 ha Initially Hamad International Airport will have a handling capacity of some 28 million passengers a year with plans to increase this number to 50 million in its final phase of development Highlights of the new facility include over 40 000sqm of retail space and passenger lounges some 41 contact gates dedicated gates for the Airbus A380 superjumbo a VVIP terminal an iconic mosque cargo complex and two runways one being the longest in the world and much more Cargo Services began from 1 December 2013 After delays in opening Doha s much anticipated new airport is expected to open to passenger traffic in mid 2014 The German company Loedige Systems has been awarded the contract for the Air Cargo Consignment System Opportunities for more German involvement might be in the construction of additional passenger terminal complex lounges and approval of more passenger terminal complex retail food and beverage concessions n Anna Kristin Krönert Deputy Representative Head of Corporate Communications at German Industry and Commerce Office AHK Qatar Doha Bus penny yi wang www pennyyiwang com Jazeera waqood Flyover pier Construction Al Muntazah Street Ashghal public works Authority www ashghal gov qa west Bay Busses Ankita Menon anki 4eva gmail com MAJLIs ISSUE 12 17