Iraqi fears of the demarcation of the maritime border with Kuwait narrowed the main shipping lanes t

Iraqi fears of the demarcation of the maritime border with Kuwait narrowed the main shipping lanes to export oil



Ali Salman - 04.04.2013 - 7:12 pm

Local officials described in Basra province, the demarcation of the maritime border between Iraq and Kuwait will lead to narrowing Iraq's main shipping lanes with the country's oil exports.
Concerns remained concerns of Iraqis since the years of lead Port giant Kuwait working on its creation at the moment on the opposite side of the fairway to the elimination of the draft port of Faw the long-delayed near Basra in southern Iraq.
The controversy regarding the Gulf ports to the tense relations between the two countries as fears of Baghdad competition Port Mubarak of Kuwait, which could lead to the exclusion of Iraqi ports of movement of imports from Europe and the Middle East is likely to exceed the port of Kuwait's new water Iraq's territorial, but Kuwait denies it possibility.
The countries involved in the narrow sea lane in the Gulf and is still ongoing historical dispute between them over oil rights.

Said Anmar net director of public relations company General for Ports of Iraq "when the paint borders, especially marine there will be a big problem because the demarcation will be focused on the area sailing this .. the sailing is deeply channel and depth of the channel will be on the Kuwaiti side The shallow water will be on the Iraqi side .. and this fact is a big problem formed by the passage of ships and vessels entering Iraq through, inter alia, will be sailing on the Kuwaiti side with Iraqi pilots will feel very sensitive to raise the Kuwaiti flag. "

Net and sees the need for an international treaty within the framework of the demarcation process of the agreement on the joint management of the ports.

He said, "There must be at least an international court or a case at the competent authorities spend ports and this fact .. there treaties and agreements between all the riparian States .. these decisions and treaties that must be taken into consideration .. must be all agreements prevalent in This approach because it is the right approach in which they operate every country in the world .. a lot of countries involved in one channel and joint work, joint management and this will not happen in the border demarcation process which will occur in the coming days. "

The Many Iraqis oppose a border demarcation agreement with Kuwait. They say it will change the location of the line between the two countries and will be extracted from Iraq some of its territory.

Mahdi said Askar Director Maritime Navigation Company "four ports overlooking the Kuwaiti side is Umm Qasr north and south and the port of Khor Al-Zubair and the port of liquid gas are threatened that stumble activities navigational where including impact on incomes financial and reduces revenues and increases in the cost of operations of export ports."

The past few weeks have seen clashes between citizens and police forces in the area of ​​Umm Qasr during protests over the demarcation of the border with Kuwait.

There are plans developed since the Iraqi over 30 years to create a deep-water port in the Khawr Abd Allah waterway on the opposite side of the island of Bubiyan being the establishment of the port of Kuwait.

The project was postponed port of Faw several times because of the war with Iran in the eighties and then Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in the early nineties and then the first Gulf War and then the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and sectarian strife between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq in the aftermath of the invasion.

Askar said "the only solution that the Iraqi government do Baaadah digging the canal from the Iraqi side or speed up the establishment of the port of Faw until this problem is resolved. Faw port will be open will enable Iraq to solve this problem."

Umm Qasr is Iraq's only port in deep water and receives 80 percent of the country's imports and grain

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