Iraq Director General of Ports announces the near completion
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:12 amIraq Director General of Ports announces the near completion of designs for Port of Faw
19/10/2011 14:51
Basra, October 19 / October (Rn) – The director general of Iraqi ports on Wednesday near the end of the Turkish company from the basic designs of the draft port of Faw in Basra province and handed over the end of this month to begin work to implement it.
Omran said Radhi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Turkish company that you set up the basic designs for the Faw port project will be finished soon and that the receipt of such designs the end of this month.”
Iraq did not proceed with the execution of the port of Faw, although he laid the foundation stone of Iraq in April / April 2010, a year before the Declaration of Kuwait to start building the port of Mubarak’s controversial between the two sides.
Radi said that “there are more than 100 international companies have applied to the Ministry of Transport and to the federal government to implement this huge project, which would change the map of Iraq’s economic and especially since the percentage of achievement in the way service road to the port has reached more than 30%.”
The Ministry of Transport late last month that it agreed with the Finance Ministry to allocate an amount of € 95 million within Iraq’s budget for next year to build the first phase of the port of Faw.
For his part, the head of the provincial council in Basra morning Albzona (Rn) that “in case of failed federal government on the implementation of, or to forward the draft port of Faw to a global company specializing within a maximum period of three months, the local government is determined to forward the project through investment, especially since the dozens of international companies submitted bids for the construction of the project and the duration of time competitive. “
It is expected that FAO has a port for containers on the quay length of 39,000 m and pavement along the last 2000, as well as the container yard has an area of more than one million m 2 and the field of multi-purpose area of 600 thousand m 2
The port capacity 99 million tonnes annually, with total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros.
Iraq says that the port will change the map of world maritime transport of goods being transferred from Japan, China and South East Asia to Europe via Iraq.
But Iraq is feared to affect the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak on his and other Iraqi ports in the Persian Gulf, Baghdad has not announced its official position of the port after the Kuwaiti although they sent a technical committee to Kuwait last month.
http://bit.ly/nTWidr
19/10/2011 14:51
Basra, October 19 / October (Rn) – The director general of Iraqi ports on Wednesday near the end of the Turkish company from the basic designs of the draft port of Faw in Basra province and handed over the end of this month to begin work to implement it.
Omran said Radhi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Turkish company that you set up the basic designs for the Faw port project will be finished soon and that the receipt of such designs the end of this month.”
Iraq did not proceed with the execution of the port of Faw, although he laid the foundation stone of Iraq in April / April 2010, a year before the Declaration of Kuwait to start building the port of Mubarak’s controversial between the two sides.
Radi said that “there are more than 100 international companies have applied to the Ministry of Transport and to the federal government to implement this huge project, which would change the map of Iraq’s economic and especially since the percentage of achievement in the way service road to the port has reached more than 30%.”
The Ministry of Transport late last month that it agreed with the Finance Ministry to allocate an amount of € 95 million within Iraq’s budget for next year to build the first phase of the port of Faw.
For his part, the head of the provincial council in Basra morning Albzona (Rn) that “in case of failed federal government on the implementation of, or to forward the draft port of Faw to a global company specializing within a maximum period of three months, the local government is determined to forward the project through investment, especially since the dozens of international companies submitted bids for the construction of the project and the duration of time competitive. “
It is expected that FAO has a port for containers on the quay length of 39,000 m and pavement along the last 2000, as well as the container yard has an area of more than one million m 2 and the field of multi-purpose area of 600 thousand m 2
The port capacity 99 million tonnes annually, with total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros.
Iraq says that the port will change the map of world maritime transport of goods being transferred from Japan, China and South East Asia to Europe via Iraq.
But Iraq is feared to affect the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak on his and other Iraqi ports in the Persian Gulf, Baghdad has not announced its official position of the port after the Kuwaiti although they sent a technical committee to Kuwait last month.
http://bit.ly/nTWidr