Palm Jebel Ali

Palm Jebel Ali is the second island of the originally three planned artificial palm islands. The construction of the island started in 2002, the breakwater was completed in 2006 and the infrastructural work started in 2007. Nowadays the project is still under construction, because several constructions were suspended, or delayed after the financial crisis of 2008-2010. The plans are that Palm Jebel Ali will become 50% larger than the already finished Palm Jumeirah and will house over 250.000 people. On the island will arise several theme parks of which the first one should be completed in 2021. In 2015 the Dubai government owned developer Nakheel announced that further development of the project must be seen in the long-run depending on the market conditions.