Alsumaria News / Baghdad 
announced that the Ministry of Transport, on Thursday, the opening line shipping carrier of goods and containers of all countries of the world, noting that the cost of the contract amounted to $ 500 million for a period of 10 years. 

The Director General of Shipping Abdul Karim Knhl Jabri on the sidelines of the signing of the contract and attended by Alsumaria News " The ministry has signed a contract with the British company Global for the transfer of cargo and containers by sea to all countries in the world, after a 25 - year break."




He said al - Jabri said , " the cost of the contract amounted to $ 500 million for a period of 10 years , " noting that " the project would reduce transport fares which were previously paid on the export and import of goods to and from Iraq." 

He said Jabri that "ships that sail under the Maritime Transport logo will begin the transfer of 1000 container to rise the number of containers gradually later , "pointing out that" he has been allocated berth him in the port of Umm Qasr. " 

the province of Basra , which has a coast on the Gulf and breached the Shatt al - Arab from the north to the far south has five commercial ports are Khor Al - Zubair Um northern palace and the southern stronghold of the Abu Flus, and is the last of the active ports and owns the General Company for Maritime transport limited number of ships and therefore they are not able to transport goods to Iraq , which has become one of the most countries importing them from the rest of the neighboring countries.