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First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting

Construction company in Kuwait

First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Company (also known as First Kuwaiti Trading Company and FKTC) is a construction company founded in 1996 by Wadih al-Absi and Mohammed Maaraf which has been engaged by the United States government for over two hundred projects in Kuwait and Iraq. The company was contracted to build the Embassy of the United States in Baghdad in 2004. The embassy was officially completed on May 12, 2008, at the cost of $736 million.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Company (also known as First Kuwaiti Trading Company and FKTC) is a construction company founded in 1996 by Wadih al-Absi and Mohammed Maaraf which has been engaged by the United States government for over two hundred projects in Kuwait and Iraq. The company was contracted to build the Embassy of the United States in Baghdad in 2004. The embassy was officially completed on May 12, 2008, at the cost of $736 million. The United States officials in charge of the project were said to have been pleased with the work FKTC had done on the embassy.2

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