Iraqi Ports Announces Start of Implementing Most Important Stages of Floating the “Submerged Tunnel”
Iraqi Ports Announces Start of Implementing Most Important Stages of Floating the “Submerged Tunnel”
2025-02-24 05:57
Shafaq News/ The General Company for Iraqi Ports announced on Monday that the company implementing the submerged tunnel project has begun installing flotation buoys and survey towers, in addition to GPS devices, on the first part of it, in preparation for unloading them into the tunnel path in the Khor Al-Zubair navigational channel.
The company’s general manager, Farhan Al-Fartousi, told Shafak News Agency, “The installation of buoys, surveying devices and GPS comes to document and accurately determine the path, and it is part of the necessary preparations to ensure the success of the implementation of the submerged tunnel, which will contribute to increasing the capacity to receive goods passing through it under the Khor Al-Zubair Canal.”
He stressed that “all technical matters in the project are being studied carefully and monitored by the company’s engineers and the Italian consultant, as this project is being implemented for the first time in the Middle East and the calculations must be accurate and error-free.”
It is noteworthy that Al-Fartousi confirmed in a previous press conference that work on the submerged tunnel will be completed by the end of this year.
The “submerged tunnel” is one of the vital projects in the Grand Faw Port, which is located in the south of Basra Governorate, and connects Faw and the Umm Qasr area in southern Iraq also by sea.
Earlier today, the General Company for Iraqi Ports announced that the completion rate of the road linking the Grand Faw Port and the Umm Qasr Port had reached 97%, indicating that it would improve transportation between the two sites.
shafaq.com
