Transportation is planning to revive the navigation and river transport

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The Ministry of Transportation plan to revive the navigation in the channel Shatt al-Arab river transport down to the south of Baghdad, and called upon the need for activation of the demarcation of the maritime border with Iran, demanded judicial authorities resolving the case against U.S. company lagging in lifting Aguarq of this channel.

He said Transport Minister Hadi al-Ameri during the opening of the pier 14 in the port stronghold in the province of Basra yesterday Sunday, said the ministry has developed a plan to revive the navigation in the channel Shatt al-Arab river transport down to the south of Baghdad, pointing out that the plan is aimed at ensuring maritime traffic in the channel, and Ministry and experts ports are bent on redrawing a map of the bridges built on the channel mentioned for the transit vehicles and citizens and mobility between the county and spend the Shatt al-Arab, pointing out that the plan involves removing the bridges built and set up bridges openings navigational conform to standards Engineering Marine guaranteeing freedom of navigation through the channel Shatt al-Arab.

He Ameri that his ministry demanded the need to activate the work demarcation of the maritime border and river with the Islamic Republic of Iran in accordance with the treaties and international laws, in order to allow operations to deepen the waterway to channel Shatt al-Arab, which suffer from sediment, especially at the entrance of the head Bishah, noting that there are two ports are important in Abe Fertile stronghold able to receive ships containers of different depths, stressing at the same time that the sediments that have accumulated in the Shatt al-Arab channel for more than 35 years has hampered the big steamers entry of the two ports mentioned.

On the other hand minister called on the judicial authorities to resolve the case against a company Neve Krupp U.S. lagging in implementing the project recovered Aguarq in the channel Shatt al-Arab, which exceed the 50 pieces soaked different sizes remnants of the wars of the former regime, stressing that the judiciary resolve the issue legally so that the ports contracting with companies sober other to complete the project, including contributing to the removal of obstacles to drilling depths of the channel and basins sidewalks, pointing at the same time that the ports will receive soon the largest crane in its history, exceeding Energy filed on millennial tons is scheduled to be used in operations recovered Aguarq instead of hiring with foreign companies.


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