English - Nooteboom Giants on the Road Magazine English - Nr. 3 - 2016 | Page 26
GIANTS ON THE ROAD
Group Aertssen
THE ORBITAL HIGHWAY
PROJECT IN QATAR
THE AERTSSEN GROUP CONSISTS OF THREE LARGE DIVISIONS:
CONSTRUCTION & INTRA, CRANES AND TRANSPORT. ONE OF THE
PROJECTS AERTSSEN IS WORKING ON IN QATAR IS THE NEW ORBITAL
HIGHWAY PROJECT. THIS EXPRESSWAY CONNECTS THE INDUSTRIAL AREA
OF RAS LAFFAN WITH THE NEW HAMAD PORT AREA. THE NEW RING
ROAD IS APPROXIMATELY 200 KILOMETRES LONG AND HAS 14 TRAFFIC
LANES, 4 OF WHICH ARE SEPARATE AND FOR FREIGHT TRAFFIC ONLY.
The Khalifa Stadium is currently being renovated and extended for the World Athletics Championships in 2019 and the football World Cup in 2022.
Several crawler cranes from the Aertssen fleet are at work here.
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