Article: “Al-Sudani: The Grand Faw Port is Iraq’s largest project” They’re going to have 90 births…It’s going to be the biggest port in the Middle East. It’s going to take some time and they’ve been working on it for quite a long time, but now it’s open….[It’s] very deep. They can fit the [massive] ships. They’re heavy, they sink when fully loaded so they need a deep port to navigate in. This is one of them.