The General Company for Ports made the announcement on Monday that the process of receiving the five berths in the Grand Faw Port has begun. The company also said that the Grand Faw Port will be finished in its entirety by the end of next year.
“The completion rate of the five berths project for the Grand Faw Port has reached 100 percent,” the Director General of the General Company for Ports, Farhan Al-Fartousi, stated in a statement that was followed by the website / dinaropinions.com.
He explained that “the handover operations have begun, while the completion rate of the port road has reached 92 percent, and work is continuing on the remaining projects” and that “the handover operations have begun.”
He mentioned that “the process of submerging the ten concrete blocks that make up the submerged tunnel has begun, in preparation for transporting them to the site designated for the construction of the tunnel in its two parts, where the first part consists of approaches with a length of 1,200 meters, while the length of the submerged part under the Khor Al-Zubair Canal is 1,260 meters” (in Arabic).
“We will announce the receipt of the five projects with a 100% completion rate,” he continued, “The full completion of the Grand Faw Port will be announced next year.”