The Iraqi port of Umm al-Qasr on Thursday received a merchant ship carrying 16,000 tons of sugar, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said. “The port received a Liberian ship carrying 16,000 tons of sugar,” Anmar al-Safi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The port received also a Panamanian […]
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Italian Designs of Basra Big Port

It is expected that the project of Basra’s Big Port will cost around $80 billion, and will be executed by an Iraqi-U.S. firm in four years according to Italian designs.
Iraq Increases Port Rentals
Iraq Minister of Transportation Amer Abdul Jabbar Ismail said that the rentals of the ports and naval agencies and the incomes thereof increased from 10 to 50% in the light of the achievements in Iraqi ports due to the inauguration of the first project directed by a French company for a container berth and number […]
The Japanese Agency for International Cooperation Announced Commitment to Develop Iraqi Ports
Japanese Agency for International Cooperation "JICA" Announced the commitment to develop some of the Iraqi ports and navigational channels leading through it by the implementation to qualify the projects, based on the Japanese loan facilitator of Iraq in 2003. Japanese agency said in a statement issued on Saturday, and Alsumaria News got a copy of […]