Construction of a port near Iraq's coast is moving ahead as scheduled despite increasingly vocal opposition from Baghdad, government engineers said this week, according to a report in The National. Iraqis say the Mubarak al Kabeer port being built by Kuwait on Boubyan [Bubyan] Island will strangle their own shipping industry by blocking access to […]
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Minister Calls on Kuwait to Stop Work on Megaport
Iraqi Transportation Minister Hadi al-Amari (pictured) said on Wednesday that neighbouring Kuwait must stop work on its Mubarak port project because it will block Iraqi access to shipping lanes, according to a report from AFP. “The construction of this port ... demonstrates the clear intention of Kuwait to block shipping lanes from Iraqi ports and […]
Kuwait to Offer Guarantees on Port Project?
Teh Arab Times reports that Kuwait is ready to sign an agreement with Iraq to guarantee that the Mubarak Al-Kabeer port project will not hinder the construction of Iraq's Grand Faw port. According to the Director of Information at the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aous Al-Tamimi, the Iraqi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs […]
Kuwait To Wreck Iraq's Coastal Economy
Iraq's main port of Umm Qasr in Basra will lose 60% of its business if Kuwait goes ahead with a neighbouring port of its own, reports AKnews. In addition to thousands of dock workers losing their jobs, it is also believed that the livelihoods of local fishermen will be affected. A dispute over the territory […]
Danish Company Improves Security at Iraqi Ports
The general manager of the Iraqi ports company said on Wednesday that the company had completed a $5 million [6 billion Iraqi dinar] contract with a Danish firm to set up watchtowers in all ports to monitor the works and prevent irregularities. Salah Khudair Abboud told AKnews that the technical staff of the Communications Engineering […]
$6.3bn Grand Faw Port Tender by End-2011
Reuters, quoting Iraq's Minister for Transport, reports that a tender will be issued by the end of this year for the building of the multibillion-dollar 'Grand Faw' port south of Basra. Talks are ongoing with investors from Australia, France, Germany, Italy and the UAE to help finance the project. After a presentation of the project's […]
Gulftainer to Build New Port North of Umm Qasr
The director of the Iraqi Ports Company said on Thursday that the company signed its second contract with the Emirati company Gulftainer to establish a dry port north of Umm Qasr port, at a cost of $150 million [180 billion Iraqi dinars], according to a report from AKnews. Khudair Aboud said that the project is […]
Maaqal Port Receives Record Number of Ships
Southern Iraq's Maaqal Terminal port in Basra Province has received 288 ships in 2010, more than it did in any year since 1980, a Transport Ministry statement said. "The reason for such large number of ships, that was received by Maaqal Terminal in 2010, is due to the projects built as part of the reconstruction […]
Van Oord Wins $100m Iraq Dredging Contract
Dutch company Van Oord has been awarded the dredging contract for the Iraq crude oil export expansion project off the coast of Iraq in the Arabian Gulf [Persian Gulf]. The client is the South Oil Company of Iraq. Van Oord will be working for main contractor Leighton based in Australia. The contract value for Van […]
Shell to Receive First Shipment in Iraqi Port
According to a report from AKnews, the Media director of the Iraqi ports announced on Wednesday that Maaqel [Maaqal] port in Basra has established all the facilities required to receive the first shipment of oil equipment for Shell's Majnoon oil field in north of the province. Anmar al-Safi told the agency that Iraq's Transport Ministry […]
Shell to Build Private Dock on Shatt al-Arab
Royal Dutch Shell may build its own dock in Iraq's Shatt al-Arab waterway to speed up delivery of heavy equipment to its supergiant Majnoon oilfield, according to a report from Reuters. The head of the General Company of Iraqi Ports, Salah Kudhair, told the agency that it had given initial approval to a proposal from […]
International and Local Efforts to Develop Basra's Ports
The business associations and economic organizations in Basra, in collaboration with the International Private Projects Center, have held a conference to review the problems experienced by the private transport sector in the province. Abdul Saleh Saheb, the supervisor of the Conference and Vice-President of Businessmen's Union, told AKnews that the conference aims to review the […]
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