Nineveh signed more reconstruction project contracts with international firms in the past financial year than any other Iraqi province, said the provincial governor on Sunday.

Athiel al-Nujaifi told AKnews that a total of 44 companies from around the have undertaken major reconstruction projects in the province in the fields of tourism, industry, public services and housing.

“These contracts with international companies will encourage a lot of Iraqi firms to participate in the reconstruction with them, thus improving their workforce skills and contributing to the development of the province,” he said.

“Some of these projects are almost complete,” Nujaifi continued, “…the most prominent are the construction of residential complexes, hotels, leisure facilities and shopping malls”.

The companies contracted come from Germany, Turkey, Italy, Korea, Japan, Syria, India, and Britain, he explained.

“Nineveh province registered the largest percentage of contracts signed with international companies compared to the other Iraqi provinces in 2010-2011”.

Attracting such a large number of global firms to the oil-rich province has been no mean feat. Nineveh province and its capital Mosul have been a hot bed of insurgent activity since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

Despite extensive efforts to curb violence in the territorially-disputed province, Nineveh remains a stronghold of Sunnite militant groups and witnesses daily scenes of insurgent violence.

(Source: AKnews)

A Turkish company has been contracted to set up four new power stations in Nineveh province at an overall cost of $200 million [240 billion Iraqi dinars], a provincial energy official has announced.

Muhammed Wadallah al-Jabbouri from the Nineveh directorate of energy told AKnews that the Turkish firm Lanka has been given the task of supplying and installing the four 125 megawatt (MW) units in a bid to raise the generating capacity of the province for the summer season.

“The company will begin setting up the units this week,” Jabbouri said.

The four power generating units are in addition to a $267 million six-unit deal signed between the Nineveh energy directorate and Lanka in mid-February.

(Source: AKnews)

A branch of the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the Arab Gulf was opened in the city of Mosul, to make a qualitative leap in managing projects, Ninewa’s governor said on Wednesday.

“The PMI opened a branch in the city of Mosul with around 120 engineers and administrators,” Atheel al-Nijiefi said at the 2010 development conference, which kicked off in Ninewa, according to Aswat al-Iraq.

At the time of publication, IBN can find no mention of this major new office on PMI’s website.

(Source: Aswat al-Iraq)

The Ninewa Investment Commission approved the building of a large shopping mall at a cost of 34.260 billion Iraqi dinars ($29 million), according to Aswat al-Iraq on Monday.

The mall will be in the al-Nour neighborhood of eastern Mosul, and it will be built by a Turkish company.

This is the Commission’s 29th investment permit.

(Source: Aswat al-Iraq)