Iraq Business News brings you the latest Iraq transportation news relating to developments and opportunities.
More than $150bn of airport and logistics infrastructure is being considered, according to estimates reported by AME Info FZ. Interested bidders include British Aviation Group, German Airports Group, Gulf Ground Handling Association, Middle East Aerospace Consortium, and others. The first exhibition to get air investment truly off the ground will be the Iraq Airport Expansion, Cargo Logistics […]
Iraq wants to sell five decrepit Iraqi Airways planes stranded in Jordan since Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, BusinessWeek reported on Tuesday. Fearing strikes on Baghdad's airport, Saddam sent the planes to Jordan for protection when it became clear a U.S.-led coalition would attack Iraq to force it to relinquish Kuwait. Aqeel Hadi Kawthar, […]
Ninewa is actively seeking to entice foreign investors to the province, according to Ninewa's Governor, Atheel al-Nejeifi, said on Friday. “The province has tabled proposals to the local council to set up investment firms in numerous fields, including an airlines company,” Nejeifi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The Ninewa Investment Commission had said in August […]
Bloomberg reports that French private airline Aigle Azur will start flights to Baghdad next month. France’s ambassador to Iraq, Boris Boillion, said “Aigle Azur will start flights between Paris and Baghdad in October". Aigle Azur, the oldest private airline in France, flies about 1.6 million passengers to about 30 destinations mostly around the Mediterranean and […]
A group of Swiss and Russian firms have completed the designs of a civil airport in Amara city, Maysan province, according to a report in Aswat al-Iraq. “The airport will be like others constructed by the group in Kazakhstan, Brazil, and Libya,” a source from the group told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Thursday. He […]
From 6th November 2010 airberlin will be operating one non-stop flight each week from Düsseldorf to Erbil in Northern Iraq. In addition the airline will also be offering fortnightly flights from Düsseldorf to Sulaymaniyah. Many of the seats have already been booked by a tour operator. The flights to Iraq are now available for booking […]
We reported on Saturday that Iraq's Transportation Ministry has bought 66 ships from 'an international company'. Further investigation shows that the ships will be leased for a 5-year period from the Swiss company Global Refinery. The Swiss firm will also provide extensive training for the Iraqi workforce, including specialized programs for technicians and engineers. "There […]
The Iraqi Transportation Minister, Amer Abdul-Jabbar, said that the ministry has signed a contract to purchase 66 vessels from an international company in order to reduce import expenditure, according to a report from AKnews. He said the ships will arrive next Monday and will create many job opportunities. Abdul-Jabbar noted that the project needs the […]
A Belgian dredger has arrived at Umm Qasr on Wednesday to work on increasing the depth of the shipping channel. The vessel is the 18,620 tonne trailing suction hopper dredger, the 'Francis Beaufort'. It is 142m in length, and has a maximum dredging depth of 71.5m. The report from AKnews says the project was facilitated […]
German airline Lufthansa has postponed its scheduled Sept. 30 startup of a Munich-to-Baghdad route, citing a lack of customer interest, according to a report from Businessweek. Company spokesman Christoph Meier said that bookings "were far below the expectations", and that no new date had been set for the launch of the service. The news is […]
A delegation from the South Korean STX company met officials from the State Company for Iraqi Ports on Wednesday to discus ways of boosting cooperation in the ship-building field, according to a report from Aswat al-Iraq. “The meeting ended with the agreement to send a delegation from the Iraqi company to Korea to benefit from […]
The Iraqi transport ministry said it approved a proposal by a private firm to re-open the Baghdad-London air route after a 20-year hiatus, according to a ministry press release on Sunday. “The ministry has given the green light to al-Nasser, a private sector company, to re-operate the airline linking Baghdad to London,” read the release […]
