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.
