Nearly 50 years later, one of ASRY’s first builders walks the dock he helped raise from sand
TDT | Manama
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When Mr Chai Gyu Lee arrived in Bahrain in 1976, the island’s horizon was little more than sand and wind. The air was heavy with heat, and the beach at Al Hidd was bare, a stretch of earth where a dream was about to take shape.
“I was sceptical whether we could actually build a dock in this barren desert,” Mr Lee said, recalling those early days. “But thanks to the determination of the team of Koreans, we worked hard and completed it beautifully.” He was part of a 1,300-strong workforce that toiled through the heat and sand to bring Bahrain’s first dry dock to life.
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