State-owned Dubai Properties, a unit of Dubai Holding, plans to spend up to 4 billion dirhams ($1.09 billion) annually in the next three years on its future plans, an Arabic-language daily said on Sunday. Citing the company's chief executive Khalid al-Malik, Al Khaleej newspaper said the company would depend on self-financing to execute projects within its existing plans.
Dubai has been at the centre of a debt storm since flagship conglomerate Dubai World rocked global markets on November 25, 2009, by asking creditors for a standstill agreement on $26 billion worth of debt. Fears that Dubai's debt problems are not limited to the conglomerate have hit investor confidence in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai Holding, owned by the emirate's ruler, is undergoing a transformation to help it weather the crisis.
He ruled out any plans to tap financing from banks. Malik said the company had a three-stage plan to restructure its current and future business both locally and internationally. The first phase and a good part of the second have been finalised, he said.
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