Lina Shabib is a Jordanian

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and former

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of Transport.

Biography

Lina Shahib was appointed the Minister of Transport of Jordan in the cabinet of Prime Minister

Abdullah Ensour Abdullah Ensour ( ; ar, عبد الله النسور '; born 20 January 1939) is a Jordanian economist who served as the 40th Prime Minister of Jordan between October 2012 and May 2016. A veteran politician, he has held various cabinet positions ...

on 21 August 2013. She attended the General Assembly of the Arab Bridge Maritime Company in Cairo, Egypt on 31 December 2013, where she discussed ways to improve transport connections with Egypt and Iraq. Under her, the transport ministry filed a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization against Israel over the construction of

Ramon Airport Ramon Airport ( he, נמל התעופה רמון, Arabic: مطار رامون) , named after Ilan and Asaf Ramon and unofficially also known as Eilat-Ramon Airport, is an international airport located in the Timna Valley in southern Israel. Ram ...

Timna Valley The Timna Valley (תִּמְנָע, ) is located in southern Israel in the southwestern Arava/Arabah, approximately north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the city of Eilat. The area is rich in copper ore and has been mined since the 5th millennium ...

in July 2015. Jordan in the complaint said that the new airport would be to close to its own

King Hussein International Airport Aqaba Airport ❲also known as King Hussein Int'l Airport ❳ ( ar, مطارالملك الحسين الدولي) is an airport located in the vicinity of Industrial City (Aqaba International Industrial Estate – ), northern suburb of Aqaba in ...

Aqaba Aqaba (, also ; ar, العقبة, al-ʿAqaba, al-ʿAgaba, ) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative centre of the Aqaba Govern ...

and will disrupt air traffic to the airport. On 7 May she signed a Memorandum of Understanding with

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, the Bulgarian Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications that sought to improve aviation and transport ties between Jordan and Bulgaria.

References

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