Shipping calls to ministries contracted to buy new ships

Shipping calls to ministries contracted to buy new ships


News / Basra
called on the General Company for Maritime Transport , which is based in the province of Basra, on Wednesday, the various ministries to contract with them to ship their cargo from outside Iraq to enable them to benefit from the revenue shipping operations in the purchase of new ships installment payments formula.

The Director General of the company Abdul Karim Knhl Jabri in an interview with Alsumaria's News, said that " the company plans to buy new ships to expand its fleet, but no point of that what were not to have contracts to ship goods , " noting that " the company calls the various ministries, particularly the ministries of trade and oil and electricity, to contract with them to transport their cargo from abroad to be able to benefit from the revenues of shipping operations from the purchase of a modern form of ships (rent the purpose of sale), which is the payment on credit and installment, we can during the period of non - payment of long - eighths of ships. "
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He pointed Jabri that " the company 's management on the date of next month with an extensive meeting of the Council of Ministers to discuss this issue with the ministries, the company should have priority in shipping contracts because they strip the company in general, and 45% of its revenues go to the state treasury ," he said , adding that " the company in the process of negotiating with the Ministry of Commerce for the transfer of 60 thousand tons of rice from Vietnam to Iraq, and we hope to establish this contract to a long - term cooperation, if achieved will buy three new ships."

The General Company for Maritime Transport was founded in 1952 and acquired the first two ships in 1962, namely (14 Ramadan) and (July 14), but managed then from owning a fleet consisting of 25 ship did stock and of them after 2003 , only one vessel called (Nasser ) purchased by Iraq in 1989, while joined late in 2012 the ship (Baghdad) purchased by Iraq from China to the fleet of maritime transport Iraqi, and is equipped with motorized German origin and has a maximum load 8750 tons, and then contracted by the Ministry of transport with a South Korean company for the manufacture of three ships for the transportation of goods is (Basra, Muthanna, humpback), Iraq has received during the first half of 2014, as The company bought the remaining stake of the ship (Nasser) and annexed to its fleet, bringing the Iraqi fleet consists of five ships, most of them working in the field of maritime shipping between the ports of countries within Asia and Africa.

And works in the Ministry of Transportation Company at least 2600 employees , most of them sailors, technicians and officers and marine engineers who graduated from the Gulf Arab Academy for Maritime Studies , which is based in the province of Basra, and until the late eighties of the oldest and best marine academic institutions in the region.


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