June 24, 2010100 firms take part int’l trade fair in Basra Friday
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: One-hundred Iraqi and foreign companies will participate on Friday in the Basra International Trade Fair, according to a province’s businessmen union board member on Thursday.
“The companies that will attend the five-day event are coming from Turkey and Germany alongside Iraqi companies,” Hussein Hashim al-Sa’edi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The fair, to stand on the al-Maaqal port grounds in central Basra, will showcase products in the fields of construction, equipment, hospital appliances, machines, automobiles, ceramics, stones, alabaster and food & beverage as well as furniture, linen, decorations, packing devices and read-made garments,” Sa’edi added.
“The fair will be held under the supervision of a group of Iraqi and Turkish firms in association with the Basra Province administration and the ministries of trade and oil in addition to the Iraqi Ports Company and the businessmen and industrialists union,” he said.
The oil-rich port city of Basra, Iraq’s only outlet to sea, lies 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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