Dispute between Qatar and Overseas Dredging Company

This file concerns a dispute between the Government of Qatar and the Overseas Dredging Company (ODC) relating to work to improve the approach channel to Doha port. It contains correspondence on:

• Difficulties encountered during dredging, including restrictions imposed on the company's supplier of explosives Imperial Chemical Industries Limited by the Israel Boycott Office
• Application submitted, in Arabic and English, for additional payment
• Meeting between the Deputy Ruler of Qatar Sheikh Khalifa Bin Hamad Al Thani and H R Taylor, a director of the Tilbury Group which owns ODC
• Position of Sir W H T Luce who is also a director of Tilbury
• Legal opinion from McKenna and Company
• Agreed settlement for £50,000