December 9, 2010Iraqi economists call for the activation of the Gulf Maritime Transport Agreement
Baghdad, The Iraqi economists, on Thursday, the Ministry of Transport to the necessity of activating the Gulf Maritime Transport Agreement (spi), which entered Iraq with the Gulf States in 2006.
The former Iraqi government led by Ibrahim al-Jaafari has signed an agreement Gulf Maritime Transport (spi) with the countries of the Arabian Gulf, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Qatar and Bahrain, but they did not do.
He said an expert on maritime transport Yassin Taha Sabri, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Ministry of Transport and activate their role in the Gulf Maritime Transport Agreement (spi) concluded between the Gulf States and Iraq in 2006as a support of maritime transport."
He explained that "Iraq signs a lot of economic agreements, but they do not do as required for reasons that are not justified, and that the countries that signed the agreements to be binding on them."
He said, "Iraq's role in maritime transport is not required because the level of the ministry were not serious about the advancement of the company's general maritime transport across strategic plan and clear over the past years."
In turn, said the economist Ali Farhood's (Rn), "The General Company for Maritime Transport has not achieved revenues of up Bmentebhe to complete self-sufficiency, which has for the past month 22 billion Iraqi dinars, while requiring them to achieve at least 38.2 billion dinars to reach sufficiency self. "
And that "activate the Gulf Transport (spi) will enhance the company's ability to access Boiradtha to 38.2 billion dinars," adding that "The ministry is concerned with the transport by air and ground shipping neglected."
The Iraq has five ports are of Umm Qasr, Khor Al-Zubair, Abu Flus, Port stronghold, and the port of Khawr Abd Allah, all in the province of Basra (550) kilometers south of Iraq.
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