Ports of Iraq http://www.portsofiraq.com Welcome Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:38:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Al Faw Grand Port http://www.portsofiraq.com/al-faw-grand-port/ http://www.portsofiraq.com/al-faw-grand-port/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:38:06 +0000 admin http://www.portsofiraq.com/?p=7 Al Faw Grand Port is an Iraqi port which will be built soon on the coast of the Al Faw in the area of Ras al-Bayshah. The Iraqi Government decided to build the port according to Italian design. This will be a port of the largest ports in the region consists of (100) and pavement specialist will return to Iraq, a major economic as described.

The minister said that the port would be set up in several stages, with the first phase will include the establishment of (11) quays all equipment at the cost of the first phase of $ 6.5 million and the second phase includes the creation of 10 platforms, including eight container cranes and the other for the cost of $66 million, while the third phase includes the completion of the remaining sidewalks and cleaning the site of the mines and plants in Aguarq and water, linking the port network of roads and the cost of 5,770 million dollars.

The minister said that the financing of the project will be through investment and that the Ministry will receive bids up to the second of October next will be assigned to the project company in the month of November (November) this year. He added that Iraqi companies will be carried out some work on the operation of the port in addition to the nearly (300) thousand of the Iraqi workforce.

]]> http://www.portsofiraq.com/al-faw-grand-port/feed/ 0 Al Basrah Oil Terminal http://www.portsofiraq.com/al-basrah-oil-terminal/ http://www.portsofiraq.com/al-basrah-oil-terminal/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:32:21 +0000 admin http://www.portsofiraq.com/?p=3 Al Basrah Oil Terminal is an Iraqi oil port. It lies southeast of the Al Faw peninsula in the Arabian Gulf. Al Basrah Oil Terminal is more commonly referred to as “ABOT” and it, along with its sister terminal, the Khawr Al Amaya Oil Terminal or ‘KAAOT”, provides platforms from which a large majority of Iraq’s oil can be exported. ABOT and KAAOT are major players in Iraq’s eventual economic stability and therefore is widely considered one of the top terrorist targets in the world due to its importance. The terminals maintain strict security and are guarded by both the Iraqi Navy and Marines and U.S. Forces including personnel from the U.S. Navy’s Maritime Expeditionary Security Force, which falls under the Naval Expeditionary Combat Command. MESD 823 currently serves on board the Al Basrah terminal and provides security and security training to Iraqi Sailors and Marines.

The dilapidated and fragile nature of the terminal was featured in an NPR story on June 20, 2009.

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