Baghdad - WAA
Minister of Transport Razzaq Muhaibis Al-Saadawi announced today, Thursday, the signing of a contract with Oliver Wyman Consulting Company to provide consulting services for the Development Road Project, noting that the completion rate of the initial designs for the railway track for the project reached 80 percent and the expressway 75 percent.
Al-Saadawi said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "Under the patronage of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, we supervised today the contracting with Oliver Wyman Company to provide consulting services for the Development Road Project," indicating that "signing the contract reflects the government's seriousness in proceeding with the implementation of the strategic development road project."
He added that "the consulting company will help the ministry in marketing the project and supervising investment opportunities in it," noting that "the contract signed on behalf of the ministry by the Director General of Iraqi Railways, Younis Khalid Jawad, and on behalf of the consulting company by Pedro Oliveira, General Manager of Oliver Wyman Company, is the first of its kind in Iraq, in terms of providing financial and economic consulting services for strategic government projects."
He pointed out that "this contract will give international importance to the development road, which enjoys the care and attention of the Prime Minister," noting that "the completion rate of the initial designs for the railway track has reached 80 percent, while the completion rate of the expressway designs has reached 75 percent, and 92 percent of the soil investigations for the project."
Thecontract signing ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister's Advisor for Investment Affairs, Mohamed El-Naggar, and a number of officials in the ministry, according to the statement. LINK
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