Saturday, 15 K 2 2011 07:59 GMT
Alsumaria News / Basra
Seem the province of Basra southern Iraq, recently, as if one of the most important cities in the region, and regardless of the gravity oil, which is represented as a reservoir port and Iraq's largest, comes an interview Iraqi officials on the establishment of the port of Faw to increase the importance of this province not only for Iraq but for all countries of the region and even Europe, as researchers confirms that the project will provide opportunities for economic investments and extensive with various countries of the world and number two will return to Iraq after oil.
Researcher: The project is a giant and a strategic
The researcher in the Department of Historical Studies and the Center for the Study of Geographical Persian Gulf Mary Khairallah "The port of Faw Iraq's giant projects and strategy, because this project would be a reason for the emergence of social and economic renaissance in the country."
Khairallah explains in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "This project will connect with the dry canal project which will link the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf to Europe and lead to the movement of trade, both exports and imports by Iraq."
Iraq will become a transport hub of maritime trade and will face the reactions of regional
The Director of the Centre for Studies Persian Gulf University of Basra Ghali Jassim al-Maliki, said: "This project if completed Bhlth integrated, after which it will become the new city of Basra, Iraq, the first nucleus in the Middle East for the transfer of commercial and maritime transport.
Maliki says in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The government of Basra, the local government is demanding the Iraqi expedite the development of an integrated plan to implement this project in the near future because of its economic benefit a large," adding that "the experts warn of the possibility that delayed the project because of reservations and adverse reactions that may be made by regional countries because the project would threaten its interests. "
For his part, believes a researcher at the Iraqi Center for Research and Studies grace Abadi said, "This project will, in a range of adverse reactions, regional and international, primarily the basis of adverse reactions and in view of regional interests, both in regard to Kuwait, Egypt, or even the UAE and Iran."
Shows Abadi said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", the project overall will benefit the region's revitalization of commercial traffic and allows the exchange of international interests, "pointing out that the most important" risk related to a possible war between Iran and America as well as a range of disputes in will be less dangerous if they moved maritime trade to this level of intense mutual interests, and push the international community, led by America will think differently and this is the most important thing will be characterized by this project. "
Abadi and assumes that "this project should be paid to end Iraq's problems, regional and international levels and contributes to the liquidation of the outstanding problems with Kuwait and resolve the issue of the Shatt al-Arab and other outstanding problems in order to be prepared and nurturing environment for this project."
The UN Security Council issued resolution No. 833 in 1993 which provides for the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait, which has a length of 216 km through the establishment of an international commission to demarcate the border between the two parties, which was rejected by the regime of President Saddam Hussein at the beginning, but he has agreed in the end of 1994 following international pressure, Iraqi officials insist that the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait have been by force, and led to the deduction of Iraqi territory in terms of Safwan and Umm Qasr area, as well as reducing the area of Iraqi territorial waters.
Expert: There are points of parasitic interfere with the affairs of transport and ports
For his part, says expert in maritime transport Kazem cup in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair Istqublan giant ships more than 11 meters in the navigation, and the ports stronghold of Abu Flus and other ports have great relationships with shipping lines and receive a tremendous amount of large ships. "
In the view of a cup that "no guilt for the Iraqi Port Authority or the Ministry of Transport on the subject of delay in providing the ports," asserting that "guilt is all the responsibility of the formations are inter-ministerial bodies and is linked to the Ministry of Transport, a parasitic-like objects", without a name.
He explained that "the parties do not accept the application of Plan ports and moving as it sees fit inside the port," noting that "more than one claim to the protection of ports, while it impedes the movement of merchant and claims examination and standardization of the qualitative and delay the receipt and delivery of the goods and impose taxes and wages, heavy outside agenda ports ".
Shows the naval expert that "the new program for ports is to identify and reduce the duties of the parties and determine the powers inside the port," pointing out that "most of the traders preferred that only received their goods through the ports of neighboring countries and get away from Iraqi ports, not because of the failure of Iraqi ports or its staff but because of the shortening those which intervened in the affairs of the Ministry of Transport and Ports. "
And confirms the cup that "the Iraqi ports will be the mother and not secondary, as Sieol in the region to be a detent with a stick the economy from the middle," noting that "the Iraqi ports, despite its current state, but it is enviable by most of the ports of neighboring countries to possession of a unique and strange it the dominant network of the international economy. "
He points out that "the ports of neighboring countries did harm to the Iraqi ports and abetted insurers to impose a royalty and not a lock on ships entering the ports of Iraq."
The project will contribute to the exchange of cultures
In turn, indicates a member of the provincial council in Basra Mohamed Taan that "the project will shorten distances and reduce the cost of transport fares between Iraq and the countries of the world, and will create many job opportunities and to provide security and develop infrastructure, as well as to simulate the peoples and the exchange of cultures as a result of the facilitation of transport and communication east and west Asia and Europe" .
And stresses Taan in an interview for "Alsumaria News", the need for that "there will be a diplomatic and at the level of the MPs," urging his government to "accelerate the completion of this gigantic project and begin the first phase of this project is to enable us to enter into the second phase because of their return and revitalization of the economic movement ".
The project will emphasize to the world of our sovereignty and our freedom to make decisions
Also finds Assistant President of the University of Basra, Al-Attar that "the project is of strategic projects that have an impact not only on Iraq but on the surrounding areas and give an economic opportunity will enable States to transport goods directly to the port and then from the dry channel to Europe and the transport costs for goods will be less by 50%. "
And confirms Attar in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "This project will confirm to the world that Iraq has the rule of free and able to take decisions," pointing out that "the project will provide opportunities for economic investments with various countries of the world and will return number two of Iraq after the oil."
Attar describes the Iraqi ports at the present time the institutions are not effective and can not be classified thereof were competitive and we resort to road and air freight to transport goods from neighboring countries because the ports do not accommodate large transport-intensive "
It also describes the projects being implemented by local companies to "lagging because of construction that do not adhere to any of the conditions," stressing "because it is time to give construction to foreign companies for the implementation of projects in Iraq to stop the bleeding potential and money spent in vain."
The Ministry of Transport and placed last April, the foundation stone for the port project Faw, which indicates his designs the basic features the container terminal along the 39,000 meters, and a berth last a length of 2000 meters, as well as an arena for containers with an area of more than one million m 2 and the field of other multi-purpose area of 600 thousand m 2, where the absorptive capacity of the port 99 million tonnes annually, while total cost for the establishment of four billion and 400 million euros, it is hoped that the connection port of the railway line linking the Persian Gulf through Iraq's northern ports of Europe through Turkey.
The province of Basra, 590 km south of the capital Baghdad, comprising six commercial ports oldest port stronghold near the center of the city of Basra, which was created by British forces in 1914, where they used for military purposes before they hand him over to Iraqi authorities in 1937, as well as for the port of Faw, who became devoted to the berthing and departure of fishing vessels, as it is located near the entrance to the Shatt al-Arab, and in 1965 was the establishment of the port of Umm Qasr, the Ministry of Transport announced last year for a cut in the two ports were fired at the new name "port of Khawr Abd Allah," While in the 1989 completion of a project to build the port of Khor Al-Zubair, which contains the docks, industrial and warehouses for iron ore, phosphates, urea, and in 1976 was the establishment of the port of Abu Flus on the West Bank, the Shatt al-Arab within the district of Abu fertile, and is now one of the most active commercial ports, despite the young area, and its inability to accommodate large vessels.
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