The Prime Minister’s Advisor for Transport Affairs, Nasser Al-Asadi, announced that the Faw Port is ready to receive the first commercial ship.
Al-Asadi told Al-Sabah: “The second ministerial meeting that included the participating states: Qatar, the Emirates, Turkey, in addition to Iraq, to discuss the memorandum of understanding for joint cooperation regarding the Development Road Project was very important, and it was decided within the memorandum of understanding that was signed in April of this year to hold this meeting every two months.”
He added that “the importance of this meeting lies in signing the approval of the “governance” for the Development Road Project at four levels: ministerial, executive, technical, and secretarial,” noting that “it will manage the project during the next stage, and it was agreed upon and signed.” Al-Asadi explained that “there is an important issue in the development road project, which is reaching an advanced stage in the initial designs and completing the railway designs by (100) percent and placing the train and its specifications, in addition to completing (84) percent of the expressway designs, and the rest of the service corridor is in the hands of the sectoral authorities to develop the investment vision in this field.”
He also announced the completion of the five docks of the Faw Port, and it is likely that the first commercial ship loaded with “containers” will dock at the port for inspection and testing, and the construction of the submerged tunnel has been completed, and there are no problems or leakage after it was inspected by the existing company and specialists, and it is in the process of being prepared to be pulled and submerged inside the Khor Al-Zubair tunnel. For his part, the director of the submerged tunnel project, Salam Yaqoub Youssef, said: “The parts of the tunnel were completely submerged in the manufacturing basin.
” Youssef added to “Al-Sabah” that “the water level reached (13) meters out of a height of (13.7) meters.”
