Iraq Business News brings you the latest information on developments and opportunities in the construction & engineering industries in Iraq.
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Families of British troops killed by roadside bombs in Iraq have won the right to sue the government. The Supreme Court has ruled that British troops serving in battle are covered by domestic […]
By John Lee. Volvo Trucks has inaugurated joint service centres in the Iraq cities of Baghdad and Basra, reports Construction Week Online. The service centres, built in collaboration with local country distributor ZamZam Spring, will service trucks made by Volvo and Mack, part of the Volvo group. Stefan Soenchen, Iraq country manager of Volvo Trucks, […]
By John Lee. Dubai-based Emaar Properties is expected to sign a contract worth over $2 billion with Kurdish company Faruk Group Holding to develop a resort in Sulaymaniyah. Herish Muharam Muhamad, chairman of Kurdistan Investment Board (KIB), said the Dukan tourist city project will include hotels, restaurants, residential areas, cinemas and casinos. Emaar last year signed […]
By Omar al-Shaher for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Taxi drivers in Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, are keen to tell every non-Kurdish person they give a ride to that there are more hotels […]
By John Lee. AMBS Architects has shown its designs for the first public library to be built in Iraq since the 1970s. The 45,000 m2 building will be located on a teardrop-shaped peninsula at the heart of the Youth City masterplan dedicated to supporting and inspiring young Iraqis. According to a report from Dezeen, the […]
By John Lee. Japan has offered a loans of about 120 billion yen ($1.24 billion) to Iraq to build a new refinery and rebuild a port. Nikkei reports that Japan will initially lend 82.7 billion yen to build a refinery to extract natural gas liquids at the Rumaila oil field, while a second loan of […]
BIOGH has announced that the Masterplan for the Basra International Oil and Gas Free Zone has been formally approved by the Consulting Bureau of the College of Engineering at the University of Basra, and by the Iraq General Commission for Free Zones. This planning approvals milestone represents an ongoing successful collaboration, notably with the efforts […]
Iraq's State Company for Oil Projects (SCOP) has awarded French company Technip a significant contract for project management consultancy (PMC) services for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase of the Karbala refinery. This award follows the front-end engineering design (FEED) executed by Technip in 2010. The scope of work will cover two phases: phase […]
Clyde & Co launched its inaugural Middle East Deal Study at an exclusive event hosted at the Ritz Carlton recently. The study, the first of its kind in the region, analyses data from 86 of the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Joint Venture (JV) transactions the firm worked on in the region during 2012. The […]
From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The military trial of Bradley Manning, the US soldier who handed thousands of secret government files to WikiLeaks, began on Monday, more than three years after he was arrested in Iraq:
By Omar al-Shaher for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Concerns about the possibility of Iraq sliding toward the abyss of sectarian war once again have strongly affected commercial activities in Baghdad. Wholesalers in many provinces shifted to the Kurdistan region […]
By Abdel Hamid Zebari for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Lawyers in the Iraqi Kurdistan region objected to the recent amendment to the bar association law, introduced by the Iraqi Kurdistan parliament. This amendment allows foreign lawyers to practice their profession […]
