19/02/2012 20:33
A spokeswoman for the cluster white high Nassif
"Portal Iraq," Baghdad - revealed the cluster white, Sunday, on the recovery of the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of funds allocated to the Ministry of Transport to complete the construction of the port of Faw in Basra province, calling for a commission to find out the reasons behind non-completion of schemes the port and the withdrawal of the amounts allocated to it and return it to the state budget at a time when Mubarak arrived in the port of Kuwait to the final stages.
The spokeswoman for the cluster high-Nassif, in a statement issued today, "The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers had been allocated funds to the Ministry of Transport to complete the construction of a port of Faw, and surprised recently that it has taken a decision to retrieve these funds to non-completion of schemes port of Faw," expressing surprise " non-completion of these schemes and recover the funds allocated for the construction of the port. "
Nassif and called to "form a committee to find out the reasons behind non-completion of schemes port of Faw and the withdrawal of these funds and return them to the state budget," noting that "Mubarak, Kuwait's port has reached its final stages."
She Nassif on the need to "take all necessary and correct the time to complete the port of Faw, which will make the province of Basra city's first commercial in Iraq," indicating that "if I got up Basra port of Faw will promote the whole of Iraq as a province that represent the backbone of the Iraqi economy."
The Ministry of Transport and drawn up, in the month of April of the year 2010, the foundation stone for the project port of Faw, and indicate his designs essential to contain the container terminal along the 39 thousand meters, and pavement last a length of 2000 meters, as well as an arena for containers with an area of more than one million m 2, and the field other multi-purpose area of 600 thousand m 2.
And signed the Ministry of Transport in August of last year 2010, a contract with the company Tkintl Italian design development of the draft port of Faw at a cost of six billion dollars, where will the implementation period of four years after the completion of the completion of final designs, while the ministry pointed out that the new port will accommodate 70 million tons of containers and 44 million tonnes for miscellaneous goods, which will fill the needs of Iraq to export and import through the year 2038.
The Kuwait announced on the sixth of April 2011 for planning to build a port Mubarak, Kuwait's Bubiyan Island near the Iraqi coast after a year specifically to develop Iraq's transport ministry foundation stone for the port of Faw, led to the outbreak of a new crisis between the two countries and the war Tthreyhat media, suggesting a number of officials and Iraq experts that the port will reduce the importance of Iraqi ports, and restricts the navigation channel in the Khawr Abd Allah waterway leading to the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor al-Zubair and Faw port will make the project "worthless."
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