Khor al-Zubair attracts the world's largest




Date 30/06/2017

Economy News Baghdad:

The port administration of the Ministry of Transport announced the success of the management of the port of Khor al-Zubayr by attracting the shipping line of containers (maersk line), indicating that the Danish company, which returns the shipping line was founded in 1904 and has the largest container ship to carry the world.

The Directorate said in a statement, received the "Economy News" a copy of it, "a reference to the directives of the Minister of Transport Kazem Vajan Al-Yamami and follow-up the Director General of Ports and Chief Engineer Riyad Sawadi Shamkhi in the interest and increase production capacity and maximize revenues for the ports of Iraq succeeded the management of the port of Khor Al-Zubair, (Maersk line), "adding that" MV MV HANSA is on berth 8, loaded with containers, and this line will periodically patrol the port. "

Maersk line is one of AB Moler, a Danish company established in 1904. It has 630 container ships, including the world's largest container ship, Emma Maersk. The company transports more than 12 million containers, (33) thousand employees in 114 countries around the world. It operates many container shipping lines including Safmarine, MCC (Coline) and other lines.


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