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Government adviser: new site Faw port will not affect the export of crude oil
09/08/2011 11:46
Baghdad, August 9 / August (Rn) - The adviser in the Iraqi government of the Federal, Tuesday, that the location of the port of FAO's new head of badminton will not affect the export of crude oil from the province of Basra. A report of the "AOG" the Canadian follow-up harbor construction was issued on Saturday confirmed that the location of the port of Faw New hinder the pillars of export crude oil from the Basra province in the coming years. Iraq exports approximately 70% of the oil through the ports of Basra province. said Salam al-Quraishi, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Iraqi government has to study and wide for the new location of the port of Faw large and has tried to stay away from the effects the border of Kuwait and Iran Baladfah to move away from project sites of oil and future contacts. " The Ministry of Transport on August 7 / August it will begin the implementation of the port of Faw in 2012 after the major design of the port by a group of Italian companies . He Quraishi that "the Ministry of Transport agreed with the company groups Italian site selection final port of Faw far from the oil projects and works to support the export of crude oil in the country." He explained that "the Cabinet is closely following the initial preparations for the establishment of the port of Faw, which will contribute to the support of the Iraqi economy and strengthen the position of Iraq shipping as it will be linked to the canal dry directly. " The Commission services representative has been accused in the July 14 last both Iran and Kuwait to continue to hinder the implementation of the port of Faw for economic reasons, saying the time the same weakness of strategy and the Ministry of Transport in the implementation of mega-projects that enhance the economic reality of the country. announced the Federal Ministry of Transport has put it in the July 28 last new road map to complete the project of the port of Faw and given priority in projects of importance. There are in the province of Basra (550 km) south of Baghdad, which is the outlet to the sea Iraq's only, five commercial ports and two ports PB. Iraq had announced its intention to build a port of Faw since 2005, where he laid the foundation stone of him in April 2010, a year before the Kuwait Declaration build a port Mubarak, but he did not begin the process of effect so far, and the project cost about 4.6 billion euros, with an estimated power port capacity planned 99 million tonnes per year to be one of the largest ports bordering the Persian Gulf. and put Kuwait in April the foundation stone for the construction of the port, "Mubarak the Great" in the Bubiyan which is located in the far north-west Persian Gulf, and is the second largest island in the Gulf (890 square kilometers) after the island of Qeshm, Iran. saw Baghdad and other Iraqi cities protests against the project Kuwait to construct the port of Kuwait on the island adjacent to the waterway, Iraq. In the view of Iraqi experts that the port will make the Kuwaiti coast extends over a distance of 500 km, while the would be limited to the coast of Iraq in an area of 50 km, warning that the project could cause a crisis of a new political between the two neighboring countries on the grounds that it would lead to "strangle" the only sea port of Iraq. and the form of Iraq Emergency Committee and Cabinet to visit Kuwait to end the the problem of the port adjacent to the waterway, Iraq's Persian Gulf. and decided to Kuwaiti authorities recently at the port of Mubarak Al-Kabir near the port of Khor Abdullah in Basra in southern Iraq. The objection of Iraq in building the port of Kuwait re-tension between the two sides, after relations improved relatively during the last period . Wanan of Jafar, the Open: Peace Baghdadi
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