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11/06/2011
Economist: FAO triangle chosen substitute for the Port of Hong Kong's global
BAGHDAD - Hussein al-Tamimi Tgb
The economic expert Hassan al-Asadi the importance of the port of Faw in the local economy and global, pointing to the planning mechanisms adopted by the world's developed countries for this project since the eighties.
He said in an interview (morning) in 1985 where left Britain only (12) years old to leave the port of Hong Kong, between experts of the world economy, the existence of an international consortium of a number of major European countries and the participation of American looking for a replacement of the port of Hong Kong so that this port Alternative ready when you leave Britain Hong Kong in 1997, and that after studying all the sites available on the globe found that the best site is the site of a triangle FAO. and that this group of international exposure on the Iraqi government investment projects to create a "free economic zone in the FAO" and it is ready to finance this project by 100 percent or any percentage you want to participate in the Iraqi government).
He continued by saying:
This project is being whipped up again in 1992 by a UAE company owned by the Iraqi immigrants in coordination with the international community referred to above in whole or in part did not have survived to leave the British port of Hong Kong only five years.
"He said before talking about the issue raised by the project again in 1992 it should be noted the reasons for this insistence on the establishment of the area of international economic and free port in the area of the triangle FAO.
The most important of the triangle represents the FAO for the globe in a unique and distinct and compromise between the central and northern Europe and Southeast Asia.
The establishment of the international port free in this region will have a significant direct impact on the economy of international transport in terms of both cost and time, it will be possible to transport goods by land across Europe by train and truck and then through Iraq through the railway line to talk of the proposed line of speedy passage of the proposal (the line of Baghdad, the border Turkish) and link it to Iraq within the line of speedy passage of Baghdad / Safwan. Which includes the establishment of ties with their region's economic development.
Movement of goods and you are connecting to the port for steamboats to complete its journey to Southeast Asia.
The process of multimodal transport referred to provide time at least up to (20-25) days for the voyage of the distance from the northern and central Europe to South-East Asia, this means providing cost an estimated annual billions of dollars on the economy of the international transport carriers and international, and the idea of the project is not create a port for the Iraqi economy directly from the hand of Iraq's need import and export, as that of Iraq's ports enough toilet after a process of modernization and development have, but the idea is to create a port of international free to serve the movement of international trade and the returns of this service supports the Iraqi economy.
The most important prerequisite for the success of the project to be implemented its study circles integrated (port, free economic zone, the city housing, the railway line, the line of traffic speed), and the implementation of incomplete is the rule of prior failure of the project. He added, saying the project proposal again in 1992, the Iraqi government refused to on the grounds that "the country is currently under siege and that the project would be a means of pressure and blackmail and other lame excuses, and so missed the opportunity once again to Iraq, and in 2004, after the fall of the regime raised the subject again before the Angels and national careful and sincere in Iraqi ports.
All of the previous studies on this subject has been lost or lost through the destruction of the Ministry of Transport or port facilities, where a preliminary study on the project from the memory of these criteria and presented again to the Iraqi government through the Minister of Transport that day. but the period from 2004- 2007 were difficult years on Iraq in terms of security and there is no decision-makers who are able to recognize the strategic importance of such a project in the security conditions that prevailed, and of priorities required from the government to focus on.
He explained, "continued circulation of the preliminary study more than four years and has had to refer the matter to the Ministry of Planning, which did not find enough time to study it in depth through a cadre of specialized arose benefiting from the grant of Italian Introduction of Iraq commissioned by the Italian company to study the need for Iraq to such a port," the proposal.
And provided a preliminary study of the project and the study of solid scientific studied the Iraq's imports in the past twenty years earlier, exports and the outlook for the next ten years export and import activities and concluded that Iraq does not need to port size proposed that what is needed really is to develop and modernize the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair existing road and the cost of development of ports does not exceed one billion dollars.
If there is a necessity for the expansion of Ben-establishment of the proposed ten berths for the port of Umm Qasr, which suggested that since the eighties. He noted that the Italian study is accurate and correct initial assumptions upon which the study, the need for Iraq's economic export and import activities.
But the idea of the project was something other than what I went to him the preliminary study Italian, where the idea is not to create a port that serves the Iraqi economy, export and import activities, but the establishment of Port serves the trade of international transport and through Mrdodath serve the Iraqi economy.
He discussed this study and showed cadres of the Ministry of Transport is specialized in transport Marine and economics observations were clarified end again for the Office of the Advisory Italian, who returned the study as a whole according to a new perspective and presented a new study differs from the first included the creation of an industrial port named port (A), a port specialist industries, oil and petrochemical and includes sidewalks export of crude oil and sidewalks export petroleum products and platforms to export petrochemicals includes thirty-six berths with their services.
In addition to the port (B), a commercial port specialized goods public sidewalks container and goods Jasmine (bulk), will include the other thirty-six berths. The study was solid and the value of technically it did not address all dimensions and aspects of the project which we have mentioned above.
May be the reason for this is that decision-makers in the Iraqi government wanted to implement the project in phases
But that did not prevent the completion of studies to all parts of the project referred to above.
Did not accomplish the project only lay the foundation stone. And the contents of the project pointed out that the project includes the construction of an international free port B (120) berths divided into specialized groups (Berths export of crude oil, petroleum products export docks, berths export of liquid gas, petrochemical export platforms, Berths export of general merchandise, berths for containers, sidewalks bulk material (grains and sugar) and all of the sidewalks in fact integrated port services and Aitdakhl in his work or his administration with other groups in addition to the establishment of coral specialist to repair the ships and yachts and fishing boats, as well as establishing a free zone the level of international behind the port area open to various international investment including light and medium industries and heavy and purposes of international trade and an area of more than (500) square kilometers, in addition to the establishment of an integrated residential city services behind the free zone the adoption of vertical construction and the use of modern techniques to accommodate half a million people to secure housing workers at the port The free trade zone with all services, as well as the establishment of a speedy passage of Baghdad / Iraq-Turkey border and link line Highway Turkish caller originally through speedy passage in Europe, although both of the draft railway line, the speedy passage referred to above contain the establishment of dozens of stations to stand up and rest and dump and shipment of the goods, laying pipelines for transporting crude oil and petroleum products from production sites in Basra, Amarah and other sites of coral oil at the port, and is accompanied by the establishment of the project to establish an academy specialized training courses for engineers, technicians and professional staff working on all the programs of the project and the methods of management and new technologies that will work, and dig and deepen the the navigation channel to accommodate the draft of the marine shipping giant ships from oil tankers or grain carriers, oil tankers, where more than half a million tons of cargo and grain ships tonnage exceeded (100) thousand tons, which needs these ships than submerged shipping high (15-20) meters.
He explained that Altcalf Trial of this project is estimated at about (25-30) billion dollars and the implementation period (10) years with the possibility of the partial operation of the port and free zone after three years of direct implementation, pointing out that the international community, which proposed the project requested the privilege of (50) years with 100 percent financing with its willingness to reduce the concession period in case of participation of the Iraqi government to be negotiated in the light of participation rates.
He noted that this project has been rejected from the Iraqi government in 1985 because of Iran-Iraq war and because the government does not want to put a restriction on the Iraq-standing (50) years to shape the future it is not clear.
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