Completion of the world’s biggest airport is still some years away but, as Richard Schuurman investigates, there is plenty of activity around Dubai World Central.
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For years, only the wind changed the contours of the desert in Dubai South. In late 2016 dumper trucks and excavators arrived on the scene and started moving 2,118,880,003 cuft (60,000,000m_) of earth to turn this piece of land into the world’s biggest airport. Once completed it will handle