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Etihad Crystal Cargo Launches Service to Erbil
Etihad Crystal Cargo has launched a weekly service from Abu Dhabi to Erbil operating an A300-600F freighter with a payload of 42 tonnes every Tuesday and Saturday.
Etihad to Start Flights to Iraq
Etihad Airways will become the first UAE carrier to fly direct to Iraq, from April 26
Iraqi Ports Receive 22 Ships This Week
Basra’s ports received 22 commercial ships from different countries this week, according to the Iraqi ports department’s relations & information chief on Thursday. “Umm Qasr port received 17 ships, while Abu Fallous received 3 and al-Maaqal two ships,” Anmar Abdulmenaem al-Safi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The Shiite province of Basra, 590 km south of […]
Minister Forecasted Partial Opening of Najaf Airport
Minister of Transport Aamer Abduljabbar said on Thursday that Najaf airport will be partially opened in the coming 48 hours. The Najaf council threatened last Monday (April 12) to declare civil disobedience and to close all the local departments if the central government refused to reopen Najaf’s international airport within 3 days. Intelligence reports stated […]
Iraqi Ports Company Puts Port for Investment
The Iraqi Ports Company has called on international and local firms to invest in a Basra port.
Tags: Investment, Ports
Najaf Council Threatens Civil Disobedience to Open Local Airport
The Najaf council threatened on Monday to declare civil disobedience and to close all local departments if the central government refused to reopen Najaf’s international airport within 3 days. This came during an extraordinary session held by the local council, attended by Najaf Governor Adnan al-Zerfi, who announced that he will meet the premier to […]
Gulf Air to Launch 2 New Routes to Iraq
Samer Majali, CEO of Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air, has announced that the city of Suleimaniya in Iraq's Kurdistan region will become the carrier's second destination in the country by the end of 2010, Kurdish Globe has reported. The carrier also plans to fly to the southern port city of Basra by the end of […]
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Al Najaf Airport Closed Until Further Notice
Al Najaf airport supervisor Sadek Al Labban said that the airport will stay closed until further notice while the current administration of the airport affiliated to Al Najaf local government refuses to give the right of management to Iraq Ministry of Transportation considering that it is an investment project. Official authorities had closed Baghdad and […]
UAE-based Firm Rehabilitates Parts of Umm Qasr Port
Iraqi Ports Company has signed a contract with a U.A.E.-based firm to rehabilitate parts of Umm Qasr Port in Basra province, southern Iraq.
Chinese Plans for Bateera Airport
The local government is studying a project put forward by CNPC, Total and Petronas, which invest in al-Halfaya oil field, to turn al-Bateera military airport into a civil one,” the head of the investment commission in the Missan provincial council, Muhsin al-Bakhati said.
Parts of Habaniya Airbase to go Civil
Semi final agreements have been reached to change parts of the Habaniya Airbase in al-Anbar province into a civil airport. "The process is part of the al-Anbar investment plan," Mizhir Hassan, head of the al-Anbar Investment Commission, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Monday. He said that a civil airport in al-Anbar will contribute to […]
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