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Basra, the government decided to ignore the completion of the port of Faw Iraqi funds
On: Tuesday 21/2/2012 9:47
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claims have not been the province of Basra to forward the draft to the port of Faw investment sympathetic hearing from the central government, which insisted on the implementation of Iraqi funds, but the optical high-level official stressed that insufficient funds to implement the port on the face which has been planned.
The Ministry of Transport has developed, 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, Square and other multi-purpose area of 600 thousand m 2. Services Committee and reconstruction parliamentary had a position consistent with Basra, quoted by assurances from the Ministry of Transport supervises the implementation of the project, the possibility of completion within three years starting from 2012 with Iraqi funds after submission to the foreign companies, including those Italian developed Altsmamim the initial project. A member of the Commission services Suhad Obeidi in a telephone conversation with (range) yesterday, "there was information on the redeployment of 200 billion dinars allocated breakwater of the port of Faw to the second paragraph in the budget for unknown reasons and this means not to start being built which would provide an economic benefit large for Iraq." . She al-Obeidi, "After you connect to the Ministry of Transport and in particular dealer art show there was no truth to these reports, and part design for the breakwater was completed and Astmmelth ministry before ten days and there is no reallocation of funds, but the completion of designs will be the end of 2012 and initiate parts of the second port in the next year." And she " After the adoption of the budget will be forwarded own designs Pkasr waves, which is an important part of the port to implementation, "emphasizing that" it was better to give the project as an investment to a foreign company until it is accelerating in its construction, but through contact with the ministry that during the 3 years will be the completion port with funds government and there are many companies competing for the tender for the building permit, including the Italian company which has developed designs. "
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, and will have implementation period of four years after the completion of the completion of final designs, while the ministry pointed out that the new port will absorb 70 million tons of containers and 44 million tonnes for the goods and diverse, which will fill the needs of Iraq to export and import through the year 2038.
For his part, denied the Transport and Communications Minister Hadi al-Amiri during the conference a press conference yesterday transfers of funds allocated to the port of Faw to another section of the budget and said, "We made sure from the Commission services representative as well as the Finance Committee and denied that the allocations have been lifted from the budget next year and emphasize that we are moving toward initiating construction of the port of Faw and if unable to do so Vsakdm Astqalaty immediately, "added Amiri," despite the fact that the Italian company did not complete the basic designs of the port yet, but we asked them to complete part of it to begin implementation during the current year and actually designed breakwater and we will start to be implemented after the approval of the federal budget directly. "
in turn says the governor behind Abdul-Samad In a special statement (range) yesterday, "The government is awaiting the ratification of the budget in order to initiate the implementation of the port of Faw."
According to Abdel-Samad to ask the project investment will be more useful than if they were allocated Iraqi funds for its implementation, he said, "I will not be money enough for the success of this port is important to Iraq as planned, "and added," that the destruction of the Baath regime of Iraq in a way you need to double the funds for the return of the natural environment for the construction of such important projects, which will not only be investing as happened with the newly developed countries. " 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 told 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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