Iraqi Ports: Plans To Establish An Industrial Zone And Large Companies In The Grand Faw Port
Director General of Iraqi Ports Farhan Al-Fartousi Money and Business Economy News - Baghdad
The Iraqi General Company for Ports confirmed on Wednesday that it has reached advanced stages of contracting with an international company to manage and operate the Faw Port. It also indicated that a large package of projects will be announced at the Faw Port, similar to the refinery package.
“The fixed part of the submerged tunnel will soon be 100% complete, consisting of two lanes for outbound and two lanes for outbound, connected to the highway from the outside and to the submerged tunnel from the inside,” said Farhan Al-Fartousi, director of the Iraqi Ports Company, in a statement reported by the official news agency, and seen by Al-Eqtisad News.
He explained that “the submerged part consists of 10 concrete blocks, 11 meters high, 34 meters wide, 126 meters long, and weighing 45,000 tons, which were completely poured into a special basin called the (submerged tunnel basin).”
“After the sections were created, they were examined and prepared, and then the floating operations began, i.e. lifting them with water and transporting them to the designated location, and starting the process of submerging and connecting them to the fixed sections,”
he added, indicating that “our cadres and the companies working with us, namely the Italian company Technical, which is supervising, the Korean company Daewoo, which is implementing the project, and the Dutch company specializing in such work in the world, were able to connect the first section and place it in its place, and open it to the fixed section, and it became part of the tunnel.
We had a tour and presence in this section, and at the same time the cadres began floating the second section until it was formed. After the ten sections are connected, the tunnel will be completed and ready across both banks, whether the direction is from Umm Qasr to Al-Faw or vice versa.”
On the other hand, Al-Fartousi explained that "we have reached very advanced stages of contracting with a scientific company to manage and operate the port. We are awaiting the consulting company's opinion on the contracting mechanism, regulations, and other details. After that, the file will be presented to the Supreme Committee for approval, and we will proceed with the contract."
Al-Fartousi pointed out that "there is a large package of projects, including the naval base project, which will be contracted within a month or a month and a half, followed by the liquefied natural gas station project,
in addition to the major project, which is a refinery within the port complex, and a petrochemical plant, which was contracted by the Ministry of Oil, and we are following up on this file, which will be operational soon."
He added, "We have a plan to establish an industrial zone, and there are communications and companies interested in entering into this major project. A large package of projects will soon be announced in the port of Faw, similar to the refinery package." https://economy-news.net/content.php?id=53344