These things take time

Dubai might dig a new port to skirt the Strait of Hormuz. Too soon, say the sceptics; but how soon is now, when the payoff lands decades on? When Dubai’s Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum informed his advisers in the mid-1970s that he intended to carve a deep-water port out of the salt flats […] These things take time was originally published on Emerging Europe.