The Ministry of Transport announced today, Wednesday, the signing of a consulting contract with BTP Company, to provide consulting services regarding the first phase of the Development Road Project (regarding the current railways).
A statement by the Ministry’s media office stated that the consulting services contract for the first phase of the development road project was signed between the Iraqi General Railways Company and the Italian company BTP.
The statement added that the first phase of the project includes preparing a technical and economic feasibility study and design work to rehabilitate, modernize and develop the current national railway network.
The statement indicated that this vital project is funded by the investment plan for 2024 and according to the directives of the Council of Ministers, to be a strategic line ready for the safe transport of incoming cargo via railway lines, from the Grand Faw Port, which the ministry intends to operate in its first phase during the coming year.
It is noteworthy that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani recently chaired a meeting with a delegation from the consulting company for the Development Road Project, to discuss the economic model for the project, in the presence of the Minister of Transport, Mr. Razzaq Muhaibis Al-Saadawi.
During the past two days, the excavation and connection works of the immersed tunnel manufacturing basin with the Khor Al Zubair Canal were completed, in preparation for floating the ten concrete pieces that make up the tunnel in the navigation canal.
The completion of the road linking Faw Port to Safwan City via the immersed tunnel will soon begin, then it will enter through two bridges, as the completion rate of the first bridge has reached 98%, and the second 96%. While the completion rate of the quay structures for the container terminal has reached 100%, and the road linking Faw and Umm Qasr ports 92.43%, with increasing completion rates in the immersed tunnel, and the completion rate in the first phase of marine excavation and backfilling works has reached 79.33%. As for the navigation channel of the Grand Faw Port, the completion rate has reached 77.41%, and the completion rate in the port components is 81%, and in the container yard 88.
