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Maritime transport in the Basra announces completion of manufacture of the ship "Baghdad" in China at a cost of $ 14 million
09/02/2012 04:02:00
Agency of Dhi Qar, news /
Announced that the General Company for Maritime Transport in Basra, on Wednesday, the completion of the process of manufacturing the ship (Baghdad), and near the sailing of the country of origin China to Iraq, saying it will be used to transport containers from the ports of the Gulf States to the Iraqi ports.
The director of the Branch General Company for Maritime Transport in Basra, Mahdi Ali Askar in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "ship (Baghdad) completed the process of manufacture in China, is scheduled to sail in the next month to Iraq," noting that "the company sent a crew of maritime employees, including the level of captain's captain on the high seas to receive the ship from the manufacturer and brought. "
"The ship is the first merchant ship specialized transport of containers owned by Iraq since 2003," he said.
Askar pointed out that "the new vessel with a capacity of 8750 tons Load, while the cost of processing about 14 million dollars," he said, adding that "the company is determined to be used in the transfer of cargo containers from the ports of Persian Gulf countries to the ports of Iraq."
The Director of the company branch out that "the Ministry of Transport had previously contracted with a South Korean company on the establishment of three ships at a cost of $ 73 million, amounting to a load, each of 17 thousand tons, and when completed next year will become the company's fleet of the Maritime Transport is composed of five ships."
The General Company for Maritime Transport was founded in 1961, and was then owned two ships are 14 Ramadan, 14 July, but was able then to own a fleet of 22 Bachrhtjarah not stock and of which only one vessel are old, and works in the company currently 2,600 employees, most of them sailors and officers and marine engineers.
And placed on the subsidiary company of the Ministry of Transport the transport of goods imported and exported to and from Iraqi ports, as well as the organization of loading and unloading and to establish and navigation and guidance of ships of foreign inflows in cooperation and coordination with the General Company for Ports, but the company had in 2008 contracted with private companies to do most of these tasks.
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09/02/2012 04:02:00
Agency of Dhi Qar, news /
Announced that the General Company for Maritime Transport in Basra, on Wednesday, the completion of the process of manufacturing the ship (Baghdad), and near the sailing of the country of origin China to Iraq, saying it will be used to transport containers from the ports of the Gulf States to the Iraqi ports.
The director of the Branch General Company for Maritime Transport in Basra, Mahdi Ali Askar in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "ship (Baghdad) completed the process of manufacture in China, is scheduled to sail in the next month to Iraq," noting that "the company sent a crew of maritime employees, including the level of captain's captain on the high seas to receive the ship from the manufacturer and brought. "
"The ship is the first merchant ship specialized transport of containers owned by Iraq since 2003," he said.
Askar pointed out that "the new vessel with a capacity of 8750 tons Load, while the cost of processing about 14 million dollars," he said, adding that "the company is determined to be used in the transfer of cargo containers from the ports of Persian Gulf countries to the ports of Iraq."
The Director of the company branch out that "the Ministry of Transport had previously contracted with a South Korean company on the establishment of three ships at a cost of $ 73 million, amounting to a load, each of 17 thousand tons, and when completed next year will become the company's fleet of the Maritime Transport is composed of five ships."
The General Company for Maritime Transport was founded in 1961, and was then owned two ships are 14 Ramadan, 14 July, but was able then to own a fleet of 22 Bachrhtjarah not stock and of which only one vessel are old, and works in the company currently 2,600 employees, most of them sailors and officers and marine engineers.
And placed on the subsidiary company of the Ministry of Transport the transport of goods imported and exported to and from Iraqi ports, as well as the organization of loading and unloading and to establish and navigation and guidance of ships of foreign inflows in cooperation and coordination with the General Company for Ports, but the company had in 2008 contracted with private companies to do most of these tasks.
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