[3][4] Under China's Belt and Road Initiative, the Mubarak Al Kabeer Port is part of the first phase of the Silk City project.

[4] Mubarak Al Kabeer Port will serve the economic interests of many countries including Kuwait, China, Iraq, and Iran.

[2] As part of Mubarak Al Kabeer Port's development, Bubiyan Island will contain power plants and substations.

In September 2011, Iraq's foreign minister announced that the dispute over Mubarak Al Kabeer Port has been resolved.

[22] In August 2019, Iraq sent a protest letter against Kuwait to the United Nations regarding the maritime area that lies beyond marker 162 in Khor Abdullah by upraising a shoal, namely Fisht al-Aych.