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Iraqi military vessels parade during the ceremony of the beginning of the handover of the Grand Faw Port's five berths from the implementing Korean company, in the southern Basra Province, on November 7, 2024, as the project approaches full completion. The Grand Faw Port will be one of the largest ports in the Middle East with the longest breakwater in the world at 14,523 meters long. It is linked to the Development Road Project, a memorandum of understanding for joint cooperation signed between Turkey, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
Iraq will finish a 60-km road linking the ports of Faw and Umm Qasr in 2025, an official has said.
Iraq launched the project in 2023 to include Umm Qasr in the $17-billion “Development Road” that will link Faw with Europe via Turkey and turn the Arab nation into a major transit route between the Middle East and the West.
“The road linking Faw with Umm Qasr is progressing according to schedule…it will be completed a few days ahead of its time in 2025,” said Farhan Al-Fatuous, Director of the General Company for Ports in Iraq.
South Korea’s Daewoo E&C, which built Faw piers under a $2.6 billion contract, prepared the designs of this road so it will allow a large number of trucks to transport cargo to Faw from Umm Qasr port, he said.
(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)
(anoop.menon@lseg.com)
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