June 18, the next deadline for receipt of offers implementation Alcasr of the western port of Faw

June 18, the next deadline for receipt of offers implementation Alcasr of the western port of Faw

29/04/2013 1:04 am

Baghdad Ameri role
The Ministry of Transport 18 from the month of June next deadline for receipt of offers businesses competing for the project Alcasr western port of Faw, Associate Director of the ports of the ministry, Mazen Alckheon told (Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network): It has been selected five foreign companies carrying nationalities Korean, Dutch, Greek out of 12 submitted their offers financial implementation of the project, after a thorough examination of these offers after invitations to a competent international companies have long sold during the past month.
He revealed Alckheon for the allocation of 300 billion dinars within the budget this year for the project Alcasr western aiming to implement the quay length of 16 km, and the drilling of the port basin and the navigation channel leading to him, as it would amount to amounts drilling 150 million cubic meters, stressing that the port will be valid for use in early 2017, and by the completion of more than 40 percent and operating card of up to 10 million containers annually, stressing the workflow according to plans set for implementation.
The ports have reported earlier that the only problem facing the workflow for the implementation of Kawaser naval port, specifically the east which currently is the difficulty of providing millions of tons of rock with special specifications, revealing the intention of the Greek company is executing the project contract with destinations United Arab Emirates to provide this kind of rock.
The Ministry of Transport has developed in April of 2010, the foundation stone for the draft port of Faw, which contains essential, according to his designs developed by the Italian consulting firm on container quay length of 39 thousand square meters,
The last berth length of 2,000 meters, as well as container yard has an area of ​​more than one million square meters, and other multi-purpose arena with an area of ​​600 thousand square meters. Maximum capacity of the port's 99 million tons annually.
The total cost for the establishment of the port four billion and 400 million euros, and it is hoped that connects the port railway line linking the Persian Gulf through Iraqi ports to Europe via Turkey through Iraqi territory, a strategic project, which is known as the dry canal.

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