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Competition from new ports, such as Oman's Salalah, has not stopped growth at Jebel Ali, the Dubai container terminal and free zone that all the others have copied.
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Dubai had another presence on the floor, at the Sands Convention Center, where the Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority, Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority and Dubai's Internet City banded together to promote Dubai as a business haven.
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Outside of oil and gas projects and a few specific infrastructure projects (ports like Jebel Ali and airports like Dubai), far less real economic development has happened in the oil-rich parts of the Arab world than would be expected based on their great endowment of human and natural resources.
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Some see Dubai's Jebel Ali port as an excellent gateway for China into the African continent.
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The USNS Rappahannock, a fuel resupply ship, fired on what two U.S. officials called a "small, white pleasure craft" 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Dubai port of Jebel Ali.
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Jebel Ali is 22 miles (35 kilometers) southwest of Dubai and 37 miles (60 kilometers) north of Abu Dhabi.
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At Al Hamriya, box after box of dates is unloaded from the dhows onto metal shipping containers which are taken by truck to Dubai's main shipping hub, Jebel Ali Port.
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There are efforts to have different law for some countries (the Dubai free trade zones are great examples Jebel Ali in the 70s was probably the first major development of its kind), but the law outside business still needs revision.
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