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Spirited action during the year's first government land auction, in April (top). Revenue from land auctions and tenders amounted to nearly $8 billion in 1999, about a third of the total revenue from land transactions. Cargo throughput at the airport (bottom) increased to nearly two million tonnes; air cargo accounts for 33 per cent of the SAR's exports, by value.