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Warnings from local merchants to resort to the ports of Iran and Kuwait
Date: Thursday, 03.15.2012 9:49
Baghdad / follow-up long
warned a member of the Commission services and reconstruction parliamentary Suhad Obeidi Wednesday of asylum traders shops to Iranian ports and Kuwaiti result of the deterioration of services in the ports of Basra, calling traders to submit their comments and complaints to the Commission to lift them to the Ministry of Transport and Customs Authority and take the necessary.
Said al-Obeidi's "Twilight News", has for its "Indicators of financial and administrative corruption as well as the prevalence of splitting the party in the work of ports in Basra province, and these factors led to the deterioration of services have shown that the use of traders to the ports of Iran and Kuwait will be easier for them to stabilize these countries, by contrast, would be affected the Iraqi economy.
said Obeidi, that "in hosting the last of the Minister of Transport Committee discussed with the issue of Iraqi ports in the province of Basra and the offer, the minister admitted to a lack of capacity of ports and the deterioration of their services," pointing out that "the customs authority also by indicators of financial and administrative corruption in the ports and all border crossing points, have informed the Commission and the Ministry of Finance on this matter but that the measures taken by the ministry against the body is slow. "
and called for al-Obeidi, "Altjaralmtdharran of poor services and dealing in ports in the province of Basra to submit their complaints and comments to the Commission services and reconstruction parliamentary to take the necessary measures with Ministry of Transport and Finance. "
Iraq had announced his intention to build a port of Faw since 2005, and lay the foundation stone to him in April 2010, a year before the Kuwait Declaration at the port of Mubarak, but he did not proceed with the implementation process so far, while embarked on Kuwait to build the port of Mubarak.
The capacity of the port of Faw 99 million tonnes annually, while the total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros, and it is hoped that the connection port, a line of railway connects the Persian Gulf through Iraqi ports in northern Europe via Turkey. The province Basra, comprised of four commercial ports oldest port stronghold near the city center, which was created by British troops in 1914, and in 1965 created the port of Umm Qasr, which is the largest port of Iraqis, while seen in 1989 at the port of Khor Al-Zubair which contains docks and industrial warehouses for iron ore, phosphate and urea.
In 1976 was created the port of Abu Flus on the West Bank Shatt al-Arab within the district of Abu fertile, and is currently the most active commercial ports in spite of its small size and inability to accommodate large vessels because of the deterioration of the deep channel Shatt al, especially at the entrance by the Iranian side does not allow the execution of any excavation work until the completion of border demarcation between the two countries.
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