8/31/15
BAGHDAD / long-Presse
The Ministry of Transportation, on Sunday, it will accept the loan from a US bank for the financing of Boeing aircraft deal if it was unconditional and "not a burden" on Iraq, revealing their intention to refer the six berths in ports Arab investment or foreign to enable them to counterparts emulation in Region.
He said Transport Minister, Bayan Jabr, in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The ministry welcomes the loan provided by the ACSM American Bank, to finance aircraft Boeing deal if it was unconditional and did not constitute a burden on Iraq," noting that "the Iraqi negotiating team on the subject, he returned, in, (the 28th of August now 2015), from Turkey after good negotiations conducted with the US bank.
"He said al-Zubaidi, that" The ministry will refer in the coming days, six berths in ports to Arab and foreign investment companies, including the French " , returned to it, "will enable the ministry to transform the small ports to large parallel to their counterparts in the region."
The US embassy in Iraq announced in (August 2, 2015) that the Iraqi Ministry of Transport obtained a loan "certain" of a US bank to finance the purchase of Boeing aircraft, Mukdh The ball is now in the court of the Iraqi Ministry of Transport to complete the loan process.
The Ministry of Transport confirmed, (the 15th of July 2015), that the negotiations for a loan to finance the Boeing deal going about "positive", while showed that Iraq has 30 aircraft and a number of "national vector", it refused to impose conditions "cost Iraq a lot."
The date of the founding of the Iraqi Airways "Green Bird" due to (18 May 1938), when the Iraqi Aeronautical Society recommended the purchase of three aircraft type (Darkin Rapid), in aircraft factories (De Havilland), have reached Baghdad Saturday (the first of October 1938), and a domestic flights from and to neighboring countries.
Iraq had possessed more than 20 civilian aircraft Ilyushin Russian (Eastern Fleet) an Iraqi Airways ahead of the year in 1991, where most of them were destroyed in Operation Desert Storm, and the transfer of the other part of them to neighboring countries during the period of sanctions.
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