{"id":69842,"date":"2023-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2023\/03\/27\/iraq-approves-development-road-linking-it-with-turkey\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:00:00","slug":"iraq-approves-development-road-linking-it-with-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2023\/03\/27\/iraq-approves-development-road-linking-it-with-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq approves Development Road linking it with Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <span style=\"font-weight:700\">Iraq approved<font face=\"Arial\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">a planned 1200 km railway and a parallel highway linking Iraq to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Turkey,<\/span> according to an Iraqi Transport Ministry statement picked up by <span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ina.iq\/181443--.html\" style=\"\">Iraq News Agency<\/a><\/span>. Linking Iraq\u2019s Faw port to Turkey\u2019s border, when completed, it is projected that the railway line will carry up to 55 mn tons of goods and c.14 mn passengers per year<span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. The highway will be dedicated to the transport of goods and will not pass through cities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The road will give Iraq wider access to Turkey and Europe: <\/span><span style=\"\">\u201c<\/span><span>T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">he rail and the road will pass through several Iraqi governorates and end up at the border with Turkey \u2026 it will give us access to the Turkish Port of Mersin and then Istanbul and Europe,\u201d Iraqi Transport Minister Razzak Al Saadawi is quoted as saying. The road will begin at the Grand Faw Port and pass through desert areas in Iraq, Al Saadawi said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">A new Silk Road? <\/span><span style=\"\">Connecting Asia and Europe through Turkey, the vision is for this to be the \u201cnew silk road of our region,\u201d said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey\u2019s president in this <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3nb2AaD\" style=\"\">statement<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\">. Iraqi officials want to capitalize on their \u201cenormous gas wealth,\u201d with known reserves reaching c.110 tn cubic feet, according to this <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.geoscienceworld.org\/geoarabia\/article\/9\/3\/51\/566752\/Petroleum-reserves-and-undiscovered-resources-in\" style=\"\">US government report<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">What\u2019s next: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">A timeline for the project has not yet been agreed, but plans are for the project to be implemented in two phases, with the first phase reaching a capacity of transporting 22 mn tons of goods or the equivalent of 3.5 mn containers. The second phase will allow the railway to transport up to 7.5 mn containers and 33 mn tons of goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">This is part of Iraq\u2019s plans to become a transit hub to the EU:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> The project \u2014 along with the Grand Faw Port and the Dry Canal \u2014 provide the country with an important passage for transporting Iraqi oil and gas to Europe amid continued Western sanctions against Russia. It also helps the country provide modes of transport that bypass the Suez Canal.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linking Iraq's Faw port to Turkey's border, the highway will be dedicated to transporting goods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[17,35,231],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-69842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail","tag-enterprise-logistics","tag-iraq","tag-turkey","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"50061712-0287-4af9-a84c-7255c92f4d43","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/3\/478.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"","related_issue":[69832],"teaser":"Linking Iraq's Faw port to Turkey's border, the highway will be dedicated to transporting goods","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/3\/.ab5fdde8-a91f-46b9-a23c-de24ead5fbcb.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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