For the first time, the launch of a shipping line between Iraq and Gulf countries

by **claud39** on Fri Oct 30, 2020 2:07 pm

10/30/2020

{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The Ministry of Transport, the General Company for Iraqi Ports, announced the launch of a new shipping line between the ports of the Sultanate of Oman and Basra, specifically the northern port of Umm Qasr, through the Philippine company operating Berth 20 Iraq Gate, which was launched for the first time between the two countries.

A statement of the ministry, the Euphrates News Agency received a copy of it, quoted the general manager of the company, Farhan Muheisen Al-Fartousi, as saying that, "and in implementation of the Minister of Transport's directives to work on a policy of openness to companies and customers and to provide the best port and logistical services, the Sultanate of Oman-Iraq line was launched."

Al-Fartousi stated that "the Omani-Iraqi line started with a successful experiment, at the rate of one trip per week, transporting 100 containers and exporting loads of Iraqi dates and leather," noting that "the second flight came with a load of 500 containers, as the financial returns of this line increased to 125 million dinars, which makes it one of the lines." Promising and fruitful navigation. "

For his part, the director of the northern port of Umm Qasr, Farzada Abdul-Razzaq, said, "The new shipping line worked to attract the Basra Gate Terminal Company, which operates Berth 20 in cooperation with Iraqi ports," indicating that "the shipping and logistical services that we are working to provide at the docks of the northern port of Umm Qasr were A major reason for the demand for promising shipping lines to our ports, which is increasing significantly. "

It is noteworthy that the ports of Iraq launched the maritime shipping line for the first time between the ports of the Sultanate of Oman and the northern port of Umm Qasr, at the rate of one trip per week.

Ammar Al-Masoudi

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