By Simon West RAK Ports is pressing ahead with the US$1 billion Saqr 2.0 expansion project, despite the conflict unfolding just across the Gulf in Iran. Saqr is the largest of five world-scale facilities controlled by RAK Ports in the UAE emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. The facility handles about 85 million tonnes per year of cargo, mainly bulk exports of aggregates, limestone, cement and clinker from the emirate’s extensive rock quarries.