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Baghdad expects Al-Faw Port to turn Iraq to a maritime state with a role in the Gulf, 10 NOV

Baghdad expects Al-Faw Port to turn Iraq to a maritime state with a role in the Gulf

Iraqi high Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani inaugurated five docks on Thursday at a main new port the us of a is building on its slim Gulf coast.

Grand Faw Port on Al-Faw Peninsula is supposed to offer a new freight link between Asia and Europe thru upgraded rail and street infrastructure via Iraq and Turkey.

Dubbed the Iraq improvement street, the mega assignment is anticipated to value some $17 billion.

the first segment of work on the new port, intended to supplement the present docks within the port city of Al-Faw, is expected to be finished next year by way of South Korean construction large Daewoo Engineering.

Al-Sudani said the new port might make Iraq part of the “worldwide exchange and shipping routes that skip thru the center East”.

“The mission will remodel Iraq from a country dependent on the ports of others to a maritime state with a complete presence at the Gulf,” he stated.

Daewoo has constructed a almost 16 kilometre (10 mile) long breakwater in the Gulf to defend the port — the sector’s longest, in keeping with Guinness world records.

A tunnel connecting Al-Faw Peninsula to the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr is 1/2 whole, the prime Minister said.

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