Qatar Airways announced on Wednesday that it is planning to buy 160 from Boeing, the latest deal signed during President Trump’s four -day visit to the Arabian Peninsula.
“It is the biggest arrangement of aircraft in Boeing’s history,” said Mr. Trump.
Boeing Wide-Body Cets usually sell between $ 300 million and $ 440 million.
The United States and Qatar also signed a defense cooperation statement. No additional details, such as the text of the documents, are not released immediately.
Mr. Trump and Sheikh Trim bin Hamad Thani, Emir of Qatar, Minister of Defense and Commanders of Boeing Warding, watched the Qatar Airways.
“After signing these documents, we go to another level of the relationship,” said the Qatari leader.
Mr. Trump received a hero in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The Qatari launched a craft red carpet of the president, who pumped his fist before he was walking on the steps of the Air Force, as Sheikh Thani received him.
During a welcome ceremony, men who wore a traditional white paradise accompanied the president’s procession on Arabian horses and camels.
“We have the best equipment anywhere in the world,” said Mr. Trump. “You buy a lot of this equipment, in fact.”
The deals that were signed on Wednesday did not include a controversial plan for Qataris to donate a luxury plane of $ 400 million for Mr. Trump for use as new air forces. Mr. Trump has argued that the air force is very old and that it is comparable to an inaccurate while sitting next to the aircraft of Arab countries at international airports. but The gift raised ethical concernsQatar said it was still under review.
The purchase of Boeing aircraft announced in Doha follows a similar advertisement for the deals made while Mr. Trump was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The White House said on Tuesday that the president got $ 600 billion in deals with the Saudi government and companies. But the details provided were mysterious, and some deals were announced that they are already new.
The organizers of the investment forum in the United States, where the deals have been announced, that 145 deals were signed, as a total of more than 300 billion dollars, or half the total promotion on Tuesday by the White House.
“This is just a number of many guaranteed transformational deals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” said Trump’s press release describing about 283 billion dollars in deals. White House officials said more deals would come.
The largest deal announced in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was an agreement approximately 142 billion dollars for more than ten US defense companies to provide the Kingdom with equipment and service of modern war.
The White House also created a commitment from the Saudi Datavolt Company to move forward in plans to invest $ 20 billion in artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure centers in the United States.
It also promoted more than two billion dollars in the work that American companies were performing in Saudi infrastructure projects, including King Salman International Airport, King Salman Park, and the city of Kidia, a huge entertainment complex. Many of these projects were already ongoing.
The Construction Company, Jacobs, announced its participation in the new Saudi airport project last August. AECOM, another construction and infrastructure company, has already won a contract to provide design and project management services for the Qiddiya city project.
