Dock your yacht and send your kids to worldschooling
Neom expands its mega-development projects seemingly every week. Saudi Arabia is hoping to be the newest hightech destination of the Middle East, outpacing what Lebanon once was, and the country believes it can do this through over-the-top residential housing and tourism destinations. The Line is Neom’s first 15-minute city and a list of Neom’s projects would make your head spin, the latest to be built with oil money. It is called Jaumer. And Saudi after all has to compete with the United Arab Emirates, emerging as the most progressive leading fossil fuel nation. (The UAE just announced building the world’s largest airport).
Jaumer, a brand-new marina destination is coming to Neom, the $500 billion USD ‘city of the future’ – and it will be about the super-yachting lifestyle, the one most of us don’t have.
The exclusive residential community is been planned around a marina set to become home to over 6,000 residents on the Gulf of Aqaba where Houthu pirates are firing at cargo ships and oil tankers.
Centred around a marina, Jaumer will feature a monumental 1-mile high aerofoil rising above the largest of the yacht berths, providing year-round protection yacht owners and residents. It will also have a gravity-defying cantilever (fixed or supported at only one end) to form a stunning entrance to marina, where the largest superyachts in the world can be put into park. The press material says there will be an international school onsite offering a progressive, broad based education, delivered by a diverse international faculty of experts and innovators.
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The promotional material says there will be ladies playing french horns and a marine exploration center in the resort town, but honestly with the coral reefs near extinct and dolphins driven out of the Gulf of Aqaba we wonder if it will be worth the bother. A case of being the problem you are trying to fix. It’s so bad the greenwashing coming out of Neom and the Middle East, that we have given up laughing and are now just crying.
Author: Karin Kloosterman
Karin Kloosterman is an award-winning journalist, innovation strategist, and founder of Green Prophet, one of the Middle East’s pioneering sustainability platforms. She has ranked in the Top 10 of Verizon innovation competitions, participated in NASA-linked challenges, and spoken worldwide on climate, food security, and future resilience. With an IoT technology patent, features in Canada’s National Post, and leadership inside teams building next-generation agricultural and planetary systems — including Mars-farming concepts — Karin operates at the intersection of storytelling, science, and systems change. She doesn’t report on the future – she helps design it. Reach out directly to [email protected]
