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western boundary of the UAE, providing the crossing point for travellers
                                                     and freight from the Emirates to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait
                                                     and the northern and eastern parts of the Arab world.

                                                     The increasing movement of people and cargo through this vital
                                                     transport corridor provides an additional dimension to Al Gharbia’s role
                                                     in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, the GCC and the wider Middle East”.
                                                     (Al Gharbia Development Forum, 2013, p.3)

                                                     The  development  of  an  Al  Gharbia  AeroMedina  is  unlikely  to  signifi-
                                                     cantly to compete with the regional and national airports at Abu Dhabi,
                                                     Dubai and Doha, but to provide a complementary regional model that
                                                     provides maximum flexibility for the economic growth and development
                                                     of this sparsely populated region of the United Arab Emirates.  There-

                                                     fore it is to be stressed that Al Gharbia AeroMedina is not poised to be
                                                     another regional hub that directly competes with Dubai, Abu Dhabi and
                                                     in the neighbouring airport of Doha, Qatar.  It’s role is to be regional bio
                                                     -agricultural,  polymers,  and  desalination  research  centre  utilising  the

                                                     expertise of both Emirati’s and Expatriates.


                                                     In defining an Aerotropolis for the Desert Al Gharbia Region, it is essen-
                                                     tial to define the economic role the city plays in the regional context of

                                                     the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and the United Emirates as-a-whole.  The Al
                                                     Gharbia AeroMedina will comprise a large range of primarily ‘clean’ in-
                                                     dustries. The production of Polymers, or plastics that can quickly trans-
                                                     ported  to  computer  based  companies  in  Europe,  and  Asia,  and  then
                                                     hence be incorporated into computers in those regions, is a paramount

                                                     objective.  In addition to the production of Polymers, will be a research
                                                     facility which is devoted to alternative water renewal technologies.  A
                                                     key  part  of  the  research  will  be  desalination,  and  will  work  together

                                                     with the primary desalination plants in the region.
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