Urgent Important news for Iraq .. Kuwait suspends work on the Mubarak Port project and reveals the reasons
Urgent Important news for Iraq .. Kuwait suspends work on the Mubarak Port project and reveals the reasons
10/13/2020 13:09:38
{International: Al-Furat News} The Director General of the Kuwaiti Ports Corporation, Yousef Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, announced that Kuwait has suspended the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port project on Bubiyan Island, which costs 6.5 billion dollars until further feasibility studies are conducted.
This announcement is important news for Iraq, which is striving to complete the project of the large port of Faw overlooking the Gulf, at a time when experts considered that the Kuwaiti port of Mubarak may be a strong competitor to the huge Iraqi port or end its usefulness in the future.
“Given the depth of the waters adjacent to the port project at 1.5 meters, the dredging costs and works will be enormous, and the establishment of a port will not seem feasible or profitable,” Al-Sabah said in a discussion seminar organized by the “transport events” recently, and now we are living in a double economic crisis. Due to the Corona pandemic and the drop in oil prices, “pointing out that”
It is noteworthy that the Mubarak Al-Kabeer port project was a major component of the first phase of the “Silk City” plan in northern Kuwait, whose projects amount to about $ 86 billion.
The project was also part of the ambitious Kuwait 2035 vision plan, which included 11 other projects, including 3 projects for developing ports in the areas of Shuaiba, Doha and Shuwaikh, 4 logistical cities, a land port and a smart port project.
Al-Sabah clarified that a tender for the design of the smart port project will be launched in the coming weeks, explaining that the award of the infrastructure development tender will be announced soon for Shuwaikh Port, noting that a tender has been put forward for the design of its expansion, pointing out that the Corporation is planning to construct 6 new berths in the port with a length of 1.8 Kilometers for 3 docks now.
He added: After its expansion, the port of Shuwaikh will extend over an area of not less than one million square meters and a capacity ranging from 1.5 million to two million containers, and we are studying the possibility of the port becoming fully or almost completely automatic.
Al-Sabah revealed that the Jacobs Company is a consultant for the design of the expansion project of the Shuaiba Port, pointing out that a tender has been launched to develop the infrastructure in the project and we are awaiting knowledge of which company will be awarded, indicating that the expansion of the Doha Port will be implemented on developed lands and will include a recreational center, a commercial project and a dock for ships. But we have not yet decided on the final design of the project. ”
He continued,“ It is also planned that the land port project will be developed on an area of one million square meters west of Al-Shuaiba Port, with a bridge linking the two ports to facilitate the movement of trucks crossing between them and avoid long waiting hours across the borders. ”
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