Iraq is planning to offer two industrial zones under construction to investors within a post-war strategy to attract capital and repair the damaged economy, the official newspaper Alsabah reported on Tuesday.

One zone is located in the Western Al-Anbar governorate, Iraq's largest province, and is situated near the motorway linking Baghdad with Jordan, it said.

The zone, with a capacity for 230 industrial units with an area of 1,250 sqm each, is 30 percent complete, the paper added, quoting Hamid Mohammed, Director of the Industrial Zones Authority at the Iraqi Industry Ministry.

Another zone is in the Northern Nineveh governorate and it has already attracted several local and foreign investors seeking to operate the facility, Mohammed said.

"The zone in Nineveh belongs to the local government but steps are under way to transfer it to the Industry Ministry...we have already received applications from serious local and foreign firms seeking to expand and operate this zone...as for the zone in Al-Anbar, we will soon offer the project to investors," he said.

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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