Announcing the completion rates of the entrances to the immersed tunnel in the port of Faw, 22 AUGUST

 Farhan Al-Fartousi, Director General of the General Company for Iraqi Ports, made the announcement on Wednesday that the Grand Faw Port’s submerged tunnel entrances from the sides of Umm Qasr and Faw have reached advanced completion rates.

“The ongoing work at the entrances to the submerged tunnel project, one of the projects of the Grand Faw Port, has witnessed advanced achievements, whether in the entrances to the submerged tunnel or in furnishing the submerged parts under sea water,” Al-Fartousi said in a statement.

He went on to say that “the approaches towards the city of Umm Qasr witnessed the completion of the burial work of (9) pieces completely underground, while the completion rate in the (19) open pieces reached (85%)” and that “the submerged tunnel consists of two main entrances, one towards the city of Umm Qasr and the other towards the city of Al-Faw, and each of these two entrances consists of (28) pieces that form the tunnel approaches.”

He went on to say: The approaches to Al-Faw’s entrance also consist of 28 pieces, of which nine are being buried underground with a completion rate of ninety percent and the remaining nineteen open pieces have exceeded a completion rate of fifty percent.

He noted that “according to these figures, it can be said that the completion rate in the approaches to the entrance to the city of Umm Qasr reached (90%), while the completion rate in the approaches to the entrance to the city of Al-Faw exceeded (60%).” Additionally, he noted that “the pieces submerged under sea water in the submerged tunnel project, amounting to (10) pieces, are currently witnessing work ” Painting with insulating and seawater-resistant materials, in addition to implementing.

He emphasized, “The immersed tunnel project is one of Faw Port’s five main projects, and it represents the main nerve linking Grand Faw Port and the Iraqi development road.” Special efforts are being made to finish it, making it the first of its kind in the Middle East and the second tunnel in Asia after the Busan tunnel in South Korea because of its strategic importance.