A spokesman for Iraq's Ministry of Planning and Development has said the ministry will announce the three contracts pre-import inspection next week. The Ministry has completed the final touches on the contracts for the international companies from France, Switzerland and Denmark, said Abd Al-Zahra al-Hindawi. Bureau Veritas of France, and Swiss company SGS, had been […]
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Switzerland’s ABB wins $120m Power Station Contract
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won orders worth around $120 million from KAR Construction and Engineering Company Ltd. to design and build a power plant and construct two 400/132 kilovolts (kV) high-voltage substations that will supply power to the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq. The 640 megawatt (MW) open cycle power […]
ABB wins $75m Order to Reinforce Transmission Grid in Iraq
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $75 million from the Ministry of Electricity of Iraq to extend an existing transmission substation in the Southern part of the country. The 400/132 kV (kilovolt) Amara substation will connect a new 500 megawatt (MW) gas based power plant as well […]
ABB Wins Generator Deal at Shell/Mitsubishi Gas Project
Shell has announced that it has granted a $63 million contract to build an electricity generation plant for its gas capture project southern Iraq to Swiss engineer ABB Ltd. Jasser Hanter, general director of the Shell gas project, told reporters that ABB will build two 25 megawatt power plants at Khor al Zubair. The $17 […]
SGS Loses Iraqi Import Inspection Contract
Iraq’s Ministry of Planning has reportedly canceled its contract with Switzerland's SGS after the company allegedly failed to respond to Iraqi authorities about what they described as “sluggish work”. SGS and Iraq signed a contract in January 2011 whereby the Swiss company provides product conformity assessment services for qualifying products allowing their importation into Iraq […]
Tags: Bureau Veritas, Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (COSQC), import, Pre-Importation Inspection Testing and certification of Goods into Iraq (ICIGI), SGS, Switzerland
Another 6 Companies Added to Iraq's 4th Energy Auction
Reuters reports that Iraq has approved six more energy companies to participate in its 4th energy auction, raising the number of pre-qualified bidders to 46. "We have six companies that were not qualified first, but after reviewing their information, we asked them to submit further documents to support their position. We have decided to qualify […]
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Swiss Company to Sell Textile Line to Wassit
A company owned by the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and Minerals has announced that it will buy buy a textile production line from a Swiss company for 1.77 million Swiss francs [$2.24 million, 3 billion Iraqi dinars]. Alforat TV quotes a director of the company as saying that the company is waiting for Ministry approval […]
Designs Completed for Airport in Maysan
A group of Swiss and Russian firms have completed the designs of a civil airport in Amara city, Maysan province, according to a report in Aswat al-Iraq. “The airport will be like others constructed by the group in Kazakhstan, Brazil, and Libya,” a source from the group told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Thursday. He […]