Report: Erbil haven for Western business in a troubled country and an alternative to oil provinces

Report: Erbil haven for Western business in a troubled country and an alternative to oil provinces of the south

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17 1 / OKRUDOLF 2013 09:56


Twilight News / New York Times confirmed that the U.S. city of Irbil became a substitute for Iraq's southern provinces to benefit "effective" from the country's oil wealth as well as business opportunities, as pointed out that the business climate for the major oil companies "has not changed" despite the recent bombings.



The newspaper said in a report seen by "Twilight News", "The cranes are now spreading over the horizon in this city, consisting of 1.3 million, and construction projects enormous change landscapes," indicating that "one of the biggest developments are what might be called Empire City ( Empire City) which, if completed as planned in 2017 will give Erbil horizon like Dubai is minimized ".

It added that the "scheme that city status by an Iraqi company global, and you can see through the work site dusty towers centrally rises to about 120 meters," pointing out that "the Empire is a city within the city it is just one example of the effectiveness of large by Kurdish leaders to make Erbil haven for Western business in the troubled country. "

According to director of business development in the new city Tamara Erilz, one of the citizens of Canada who moved to Kurdistan in 2011, that "the plans include the establishment of dozens of towers, and 30 of the buildings, large, 300 apartments, with more than a million and 100 square meters of space, which is an investment of nearly $ 2.3 billion "Mrdfah that" companies Marathon, Chevron and Total, Hunt and other oil companies have signed agreements in the new city. "

She said, "relatives and friends in my cross sometimes expressed concern they see from the screenCNN bombings in Baghdad, "afterthought it was "rare in Kurdistan and I drive a car here, but I do not have any concerns, a city completely safe, even for me as a woman."

He adds the newspaper report that "the hotel industry is expanding to meet the increase in business activity, and the Marriott Hotel, for example, is the first in a series of hotels American in Arbil, which is part of the development of the Imperial City, and is scheduled to open the hotel in 2015, is also planning the best hotels Western including Kempinski, Hilton and other international chains to invest in Erbil, in addition to the Divan, a Turkish company, Rotana, a company from the United Arab Emirates, and high-end hotels are already working off the site of the Imperial City. "

He says commercial advisor to Erbil International Airport Andrew Jones, a British, who moved to Kurdistan in 2010, "The airlines have increased the number of flights going to the city, and there are 23 companies from airlines up Erbil with 15 countries," adding that "the city was Interim served by the airport, which was built by the military forces of the United States on an airstrip was used by Saddam Hussein's war against Iran in 1980, as well as in attacks during the Anfal crackdown that killed about 180 thousand of Kurds. "

He continued that "in 2010 was the opening of Station New Travel, bringing the airport Erbil has reached Western standards when it opened the new airport," pointing to "the advent of 947 600 passengers through the airport in 2012, except for both domestic and international flights, an increase of 53 per percent during 2011, which is an example of the changing physical and symbolic of the city, as the airport was earlier a means of repression, as it was for Saddam's forces but now is the site editor connects Kurdistan world ".

It is said that the city of Arbil has recently undergone a series of explosions that targeted the building, the General Security Directorate (brave) and the Directorate of asayish Arbil and the Interior Ministry, killing seven members of the protection and the wounding of more than forty others, while killing all the attackers, numbering six people, while announced Directorate brave public in Kurdistan later, the arrest of the bombers who are from outside Iraq.


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