Iraqi Transport Minister examine the possibility of accelera

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Iraqi Transport Minister examine the possibility of accelerating the implementation of Port FAO
October 6th
Basra, October 6 / October (Rn) – The media company official ports of Iraqon Thursday, said Minister of Transport, Hadi Amiri, arrived Thursday to the province of Basra to discuss the possibility of accelerating the implementation of the port of Faw.

Said Anmar net Kurdistan News Agency (Rn), “The Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri arrived in Basra with a group of officials in the ministry, to meet with staff supervising the implementation of the port of Faw, and discuss the possibility of speedy implementation,” adding that “the Minister of Transport will visit the field to ports of Basra and the rest of the formations of the Ministry in the province. “

The project is a port of Faw in the province of Basra (550 km south of Baghdad), which lay the foundation stone to him in April 2010, major projects in Iraq and the region, beyond the total cost of four billion euros, and estimated power port capacity planned 99 million tonnes per year to be one of the largest ports bordering the Persian Gulf region.

For his part, demanded an official source in the port project FAO federal government need to take a clear decision to direct the implementation of a port of Faw.

The source, who preferred not to be named (Rn) “on the federal government take a clear decision to direct the implementation of the project and facilitate the work-Law No. 157 for major projects and the formation of a supreme body for managing the port to be president rank of minister and the membership of the local government.”

He explained that “work on the project during the current phase includes the implementation of road length (4.6) km highway linking the Faw port, and another road is located near the port of Faw.”

And head of the Ministry of Transport to take proactive measures to reduce the impact of the establishment of the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak, which he described Iraqi experts said he would leave negative impact on traffic in the Iraqi Persian Gulf is the only waterway in the country.

Iraq has threatened earlier to resort to the United Nations in case of discovered the existence of economic damage may be caused by shipping and the port of Kuwait.

And put Kuwait last Aprilthe foundation stone to build a port in the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Bubiyan Island, which lies in the far north-west Persian Gulf, and is the second largest island in the Gulf (890 square kilometers) after the Iranian island of Qeshm.

Baghdad has seen and other Iraqi cities of Kuwait protests over the project because of what it said about the Iraqi government that will stop the navigation of Iraq, and some of the protesters demanded the expulsion of Ambassador to Kuwait from Baghdad.

From: Ammar Al Saleh, the Open: Wafa Zangana


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