{"id":70323,"date":"2023-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2023\/04\/26\/iraq-to-launch-rail-link-project-with-turkey-in-early-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"iraq-to-launch-rail-link-project-with-turkey-in-early-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2023\/04\/26\/iraq-to-launch-rail-link-project-with-turkey-in-early-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq to launch rail link project with Turkey in early 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Iraq will launch its Development Road Project linking its Southern Faw Port to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Turkey by rail at the start of 2024<\/span><span style=\"\">, the Transport Ministry\u2019s Relations and Media Director Maitham Al Safi told <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ina.iq\/eng\/26032-transportation-ministry-sets-the-date-for-the-implementation-phase-of-the-development-road-project.html\" style=\"\">Iraqi News Agency<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. An Italian consulting company has submitted a feasibility study for the project, Al Safi said, though he did not reveal which company will implement the project or how much it will cost. <\/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 details: <\/span><span style=\"\">The freight train will pass through nine Iraqi provinces, the last of which is Nineveh, which will connect to Turkey. Some 60 km of rail between the ports of Faw and Umm Qasr have been built, according to Al Safi. <\/span><span style=\"\">The train will have an initial capacity of 3.5 mn containers and 22 mn tons of bulk cargo per year, which should increase to 7.5 mn containers and 33 mn tons per year. It will also have the capacity to accommodate 13.8 mn passengers per year<\/span><span style=\"\">, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zawya.com\/en\/projects\/construction\/iraq-to-start-project-for-rail-link-with-turkey-in-early-2024-po1il90d\" style=\"\">Zawya<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> reports, citing Iraqi officials.<\/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\">Iraq has big rail ambitions:<\/span><span style=\"\"> Iraq has been working on developing rail projects on several fronts, including a <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/logistics\/en\/news\/story\/4ef34151-2de3-4300-aec1-b5cea2e6c79d\" style=\"\">plan<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> to build a connection with Iran through the Khosravi border crossing. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian company has submitted a feasibility study for the project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","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":[17,182,35,121,838,231],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-70323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail","tag-enterprise-logistics","tag-infrastructure","tag-iraq","tag-rail","tag-southern-faw-port","tag-turkey","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"7d9637b5-dc6c-4852-8564-f4aa8f737e4c","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/4\/808.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Iraq to launch rail link project with Turkey in early 2024","related_issue":[70318],"teaser":"An Italian company has submitted a feasibility study for the project","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/4\/.0fcfdd3f-ad70-4ca6-b6f7-1a9ce868578e.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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