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Jordan and Iraq agreed on Saturday to ease regulations at Iraqi border posts to facilitate the transport of goods, according to a report from Petra. A joint committee tasked with easing transport and trade also emphasised the importance of a rail link between the two neighbours and to carry out a memo of understanding signed […]
The Kurdistan Regional Government's Minister of Trade, Sinan Chalaby [Chalabi], told AKnews that the number of Jordanian companies in Iraqi Kurdistan is expected to double by the end of the year. Currently 50 Jordanian companies do business in the Kuristan Region. According to Chalabi, this figure is expected to increase to 100 by the end […]
Iraq has agreed to increase oil exports to Jordan by 50%, according to AKnews. The Iraqi Oil Ministry has signed the agreement with its Jordanian counterpart today to increase oil exports from the Baiji [Bayji, Beiji] refinery (pictured) from 10,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 15,000 bpd. Falah al-Ameri, director of the State Oil Marketing […]
An Amman-based freight company has won a tender to transport 30,000 metric tons of fuel oil per month from Iraq to Jordan, the nation’s official news agency Petra said. Bloomberg reports that the company is called 'Mahmoud Al Zoubi for Transport', and that it will charge 37.3 Jordanian dinars ($52.65) per ton, which was the […]
A Jordanian transport company said on Sunday that it won the 'technical side' of a bid to transport 10,000 tons of fuel oil from Iraq to Jordan every day, within an agreement signed between the neighbouring countrries in 2006, according to the KUNA news agency. Abdussalam Al-Theyabat, owner of the Theyabat Transport and Trading corporation, […]
Jordan's official news agency, Petra, reports that drilling will start at the Risha natural-gas deposit straddling the country’s border with Iraq by the end of the year. Citing Energy Minister Khalid Touqan, the agency says work will start at the first of two wells to be initially drilled at a depth of between 3 kilometers […]
Jordan's Prime Minister, Marouf Bakhit, said that Iraq has agreed to increase the volume of daily oil supply to Jordan from 10,000 barrels to 15,000 barrels, with plans to increase the quantity to 30,000 barrels a day eventually. The two countries have agreed in principle to a planned crude oil pipeline stretching between the neighboring […]
Iraq and Jordan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a rail line linking the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba with the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, The Jordanian news agency Petra reports that the MoU was signed in Amman on Sunday by Jordanian Transport Minister Muhannad Qudah and his Iraqi counterpart Hadi al Ameri. […]
Bloomberg reports that Iraqi Airways will appeal a court order to freeze its bank accounts in Jordan following a lawsuit by Kuwait Airways. Karim al-Nuri, a spokesman for the Iraqi Minister of Transport, told the news agency: “We are preparing to appeal the Jordanian court order. Our appeal is based on the fact that Iraqi […]
The planned single-track rail link between Iraq and Jordan will boast an annual cargo capacity of 6 million tons, an Iraqi Transport Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. Jawad al Kharsan told AKnews that initial technical and economic feasibility studies into the rail project had been conducted by both countries. He explained that talks between a […]
The railway between Baghdad and Aqaba, Jordan, got one step closer to realization on Wednesday, with the signing of a preliminary agreement between the governments of the two countries, the Iraqi Transport Ministry announced. The project, which the ministry hopes will strengthen commercial ties with Jordan, involves the construction of a 150 km connecting spur. […]
Iraq has received an official request from Jordan to raise oil supplies to 30,000 barrels a day after Egyptian gas stopped flowing to the kingdom when a Sinai pipeline was attacked, AFP has reported. "I have sent a letter to the Iraqi oil minister and asked to increase the oil supplies from 10,000 barrels a […]
