The Iraqi Electricity Ministry has said that a third Turkish ship will arrive within a few days in the Umm Qasr port (pictured) to supply 108 megawatts of power to Iraq's struggling electricity grid. A spokesman for the ministry has added that two other Turkish floating power plants off southern Iraq supply a total of […]
A French company began construction work on Tuesday on a $15 million luxury hotel in Nineveh’s Shallalat area, 10 km north of Mosul, according to AKnews. The Investment Commission's media spokesman told the agency that the 200-room hotel will be the first of its kind in the region. “The implementation of the project comes after […]
The governor of Basra has laid the foundation stone for a new 120-room hotel in the city. The new hotel, which will have 7 floors and will include two restaurants, will be built at a cost of $14 million [17 billion Iraqi dinars] on a site covering 3.5 acres. According to the Basra Investment Commission, […]
Erbil’s employment committee announced today that it has overseen for the first time the recruitment of 1,868 new primary and secondary school teachers in the province. AKnews reports that the names of the new recruits were announced in a ceremony at the Health Directorate Conventions Hall at the heart of the provincial capital. At the […]
A US Army captain was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in federal prison for taking bribes to steer Army contracts in Iraq. Courthouse News reports that Bryant Williams demanded and got more than $30,000 in bribes to steer more than $930,000 worth of contracts while he served with the Army's 101st Airborne Division in […]
Iraq's Ministry of Electricity said on Wednesday that it had received bids by three foreign companies to build a 1,014 megawatt gas power plant in the town of Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad. Reuters reports that South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction bid at around $500 million, Egypt's Orascom Construction at $463 […]
Iran's Deputy Commerce Minister, Hamid Safdel, said Iran has plans to increase its annual trade with Iraq from the current level of around $6 billion to $10 billion, the official IRNA news agency has reported. Speaking at a seminar titled "Opportunities in the Iraqi Market", the minister said that the Iraqi market is very competitive, […]
The Ministry of Construction and Housing is to build a highway linking Baghdad with Turkey, according to a report from Azzaman. The 508 km road is to be financed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “This project is a challenge to the ministry since it assumes great economic significance for the country,” the ministry quoted […]
A company owned by the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals has announced that it will buy buy a textile production line from a Swiss company for 1.77 million Swiss francs [$2.24 million, 3 billion Iraqi dinars]. Alforat TV quotes a director of the company as saying that the company is waiting for Ministry approval […]
Due to the lack of investment in developing Iraq’s oil sector during the old regime, pipelines lack capacity and are corroded, ports need redeveloping, refineries need to be upgraded to increase supply, mines cleared, power supply is irregular and an increase in water supply is crucial. Iraq has the fourth largest oil reserves in the […]
As we reported in recent days, Iraq has decided to offer 18 factories to foreign investors to renovate and run, on very attractive terms. According to the reports, the deals are to be sweetened by some very interventionist means, such as paying half the wages of Iraqi workers in those plants, and restricting the importation […]
The Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions is warning investors about advertised opportunities to invest in Iraq's currency, the dinar. The DFI says several web sites say Iraq's currency is poised to increase in value, even dramatically, but it says investors aren't told that the dinar is only good in Iraq. There is no currency exchange […]
