Ports announces resumption of rail transport of oil products and the establishment of tanks for oils and sugar


10/25/2016 17:17



Long-Presse / Basra



Iraqi ports company announced on Tuesday for the resumption of trains entering the port of Khor Al-Zubair to transport petroleum products after a break of many years, indicating that a foreign company has set up a base for oil tanks, raw sugar the southern port of Umm Qasr in the framework of the joint operating venture.

He relations and media official at the General Company for Ports of Iraq Anmar net, in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The locomotives, railway first entered the port of Khor Al-Zubair after a lapse of years, so as to transport petroleum products from the pier No. 4 to its own stores and vice versa. "noting that" the process of moving products carriages railway has successfully reducing costs and shorten the time. "

The net, that "the Gulf Grand Hand Lierse GGH company contracting within the interoperability project has created a base for tanks oils, sugar and food in the piers 2 and 3 port of Umm Southern Palace, according to the international standards", adding that "reservoirs include pipeline network to unload oil and monument equipment for unloading raw sugar and system of surveillance cameras, as well as the establishment attached to a parking oil tankers. "

He said relations and media official at the General Company for Ports of Iraq, that "the ports completed several projects of common operating system," pointing out that their "stay Rizpah and Yards for containers and other there for the rehabilitation of two berths in the port of Umm Qasr in progress."

The resumption of the railway connecting important ports to transport various goods, after a break due to the devastation of their lines in the port of Umm Qasr after 2003.

Basra has four ports to receive ships laden with cargo, a port of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair, south west of Basra and the port of Abu Flus, south-east of Basra, and bastion of the city center.

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