Iraq intends to purchase two ships for the transport of grain and goods
Iraq intends to purchase two ships for the transport of grain and goods
Translated by IRAQdirectory.com - [3/4/2008]
Iraq intends to purchase two ships, one for the transport of grain with the capacity of 50 tons and the second accommodate payload of 6 thousand tons of different cargo, in a step described by the Director General of Water Transport in Iraq, Kazim Tahir Hashim, as a beginning to build a new Iraqi commercial fleet.
He added that his company owns two ships operating according to a partnership system with the Jordanian trade and transport company "Alia", carrying leased payloads from abroad and rarely anchor in Iraqi ports because Iraqi ministries fail to transfer the cargo and goods belonging to them in the company's ship, even by %10, to benefit from the income received for the purchase of a ship like neighboring countries.
He explained that the non-availability of goods for shipment, the high fuel prices and costs as well as other obstacles faced by ships in ports do not abide by the transportation systems overloaded the company, pointing out that %40 of imported goods and commodities to Iraq were transported exclusively through the Water Transport Company.
Hashim said that the Company used to own four ships by the fall of the former regime: two in Basrah, one was bombed during the war 2003 and the second is used for the transport of cars but it does not seem to meet the cost of its fuel, the third has dropped anchor in the Libyan ports since 2002 and its fate is unknown so far and have had debt for the benefit of the Company admitted by the Libyan side, and the fourth had moored in the German ports since 1990 and the process of its retrieval and repair cost more than $4 million, and the company could not sell it because of the debt it owed.
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