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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 […]
The German School in Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq was officially opened on 16 September by Safin Muhsin Dizayee, the Regional Government’s Education Minister, Nihad Qoja, the Chairman of the School Association and Stefan Bantle, the Head of the German Consulate-General in Erbil. It is thus the newest of a total of more than 130 German schools abroad […]
Reuters reports on Sunday that the cut in Baghdad's allocation of fuel to Iraqi Kurdistan is related to the admission last month that the region is has been exporting petroleum products through Iran. We reported at the weekend that the cut was in response to the new gas agreement between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) […]
Germany's Siemens is eyeing up electricity investments in Basra. “A delegation from Siemens met today (Sept. 2) with officials of the provincial council’s electricity committee to discuss ways to carry out projects in the power sector in Basra,” Ziyad Ali told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The delegation expressed readiness to carry out power projects in […]
Baghdad has increased the stakes in the row that has flared up over the new German/Kurdish gas contract. Last week we reported on the dispute relating to KRG's agreement with German energy giant RWE. Now AKnews reports that the Iraqi oil ministry said last week that it will cut Kurdistan’s fuel share in half as […]
The German government has refused to be drawn into the row over RWE's new gas agreement with the Kustdistan Regional Government. The Iraqi oil ministry has said the agreement is illegal because the country's oil and gas are federal resources to be administered centrally. Asked about the dispute, a spokesman for the German economy ministry […]
A German-language school in the Kurdistan Region’s capital of Erbil will be inaugurated on Sept. 16, and will start admitting students for the 2010-11 academic year, according to a report from AKnews. “It is going to be the first private school in Kurdistan that is supported by the German government and it will become a […]
The State Company for Iraqi Ports signed an agreement on Thursday with German company Marlog to operate Dock 8 at Khour al-Zubeir [Khor al-Zubair]. The agreement includes the right to operate the dock for seven years. Incorporated in 1974 as a limited company in Düsseldorf, Germany, Marlog-LBG Logistics became a member of the IQ-Martrade Group […]
A total of Eighteen German and Dutch oil companies will participate in an oil conference in Arbil on Tuesday - “The Netherlands government organizes this conference along with Shell, 14 Dutch oil companies and three German companies,”
“Although security situation in Iraq is stable, the image associated with the country in German investors’ minds is about bombings and security violations,” the consular told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
German consul in Arbil said on Monday that talks underway to implement important projects in Kurdistan, including the establishment of a truck assembly plant.
Germany’s Deputy Minister for Trade and Investment Dr. Karl Ernest Brauner this week opened Germany's Liaison Office for Industry and Commerce in Erbil in an effort to further facilitate trade with the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. During his visit to Erbil, Dr. Brauner also met with President Masoud Barzani who welcomed the decision to launch […]
