Maritime news of Iraq

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKAM62364820110116

Iraq to ask foreign firms to build 10 ships

* Cost put at around $110 million

Jan 16 (Reuters) - Iraq's Transport Ministry said on Sunday it would invite foreign firms in early March to submit bids to build 10 ships, including bulk cargo and container vessels, for an estimated value of $110 million.

Ismat Amer, head of the state-run sea transport company, said Iraq had started rebuilding its maritime fleet when it bought its first new ship in 2009.

Iraq signed a deal in September with Global Refinery of Switzerland to jointly operate 66 ships. The deal gave Iraq its first maritime fleet since the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003.

"The Transport Ministry intends to invite specialized firms at the beginning of March to build a fleet of 10 ships of different purposes," said Amer. He said the deal was worth roughly $110 million.

Iraq's infrastructure, including its ports, are dilapidated after decades of war, sanctions and economic decline. But Iraq is hoping to rebuild after it signed major oil deals which could quadruple oil output capacity and as violence begins to ease.

Amer said the tender would include four bulk cargo ships, two container ships and one passenger vessel. Construction was expected to take two years.

Amer said the project is part of the government investment plan and money had been allocated. (Reporting by Aseel Kami; Editing by Michael Christie and David Holmes)

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The Iraqi sea transport company is going to rebuild the riverine transportation of Iraq along the Shatt Al Arab all the way up to Amarah (the way it used to be until the 1970s).

They are planning on creating new river ports.

[IraqiPlan_et]

The opening of two new ports for the export of oil next month
August 1 2011

Deputy Prime Minister for Energy that Iraq's attempts to reach its production of oil to more than three million barrels per day, the end of this year, stressing that the coming months will witness the opening of two ports for export capacity of 500 thousand barrels per day. Hussein al-Shahristani said in a statement to the site «Alsumaria News» It is Planning «to reach its production of oil to more than three million barrels per day by the end of the year 2011 and to 12 million barrels per day during the next six years, since the introduction of oil fields for development by international companies in the two rounds of licensing the first and second».

He added that the country «produced at the present time 2.00075 million barrels a day, after the result was 2.00035 million barrels over the past year 2010».

Iraq signed in 2010, contracts with several international companies to develop some oil fields in the two rounds of licensing the first and the second to reach a production of at least 11 million barrels per day within the next six years and 12 million barrels a day, after the addition of the quantities produced from other fields of effort national and focused most of those contracts in the fields of the South.

Shahristani said that «the country's oil exports rose to 2.00025 million barrels a day to keep pace with increases in oil production», pointing out that «Iraq will open two ports for export end of the current capacity of 500 thousand barrels a day». And set Iraq's share of three million and 800 thousand barrels per day , but does not currently exported only 2,000,165 barrels a day, and the export share is determined by agreement between the State and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and based on certain criteria the most important reserves of each country, and calls for Iraq to increase its stake depending on the «new oil discoveries» has.

And Iraq contracted with an international company for construction of four floating ports to export crude oil, will work in two of them at the end of the year 2011, and export capacity of the port one of 500 thousand barrels per day.

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Iraq to buy 3 cargo ships in China
Sept. 29


Iraq will purchase three commercial cargo ships of 50,000 tons each in order to develop the country's merchant navy.

The General Company for Maritime Transport said, the Ministry of Transport decided to buy the ships in China.

"The ships are under construction and they will meet the newest standards in terms of speed, design and cargo," said Karkhi Samir, general director of the company.

Iraq's merchant navy is almost non-existent. Currently, only one ship, the "Nasser" is at sea for Iraq. The once 14 ships Iraq purchased in the 1950ies were either destroyed or seized during the First and Second Gulf War or in the course of the UN sanctions on Iraq after 1991.

The Ministry of Transport decided to rebuild the merchant navy in order to keep up with the country's economic boom, as well as with the country's plans to export more oil. Iraq plans to increase its oil production from 2.7 million barrels of oil per day (bopd) to 12 million bopd in 2016.

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Fifth floating pier expected in Basra - official
October 12 2011


BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: There are intentions to establish the fifth floating oil exporting pier after completing the other four currently under implementation, the Director General of the South Oil Company said today.

The four piers are expected to be finished by 2013 or at the beginning of 2014.

Dhia al-Mussawi told Aswat al-Iraq that the first floating pier will start exporting operations at the end of this year.

He hoped that by the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014, Iraq will export 5-6 million b/d.

Iraqi oil ministry contracted with a number oil investing companies to reach the production capacity to 12 million b/d by 2015.

Basra, center of the province, lies 590 km south of the capital, Baghdad.

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Iraq opens ship repair facility
5 Dec 2011


The Iraqi navy has opened a ship repair facility for five vessel classes with assistance from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command.

The facility in Umm Qasr, Iraq, was equipped by the United States as part of a Foreign Military Sales Agreement and the U.S. Navy will continue to provide it and its Iraqi personnel with training and technical support services.

"I'm very proud of Adm. (Ali Hasan) Ali, head of the Iraqi navy, and his team of sailors who have made the ship repair facility a state-of-the-art, intermediate maintenance operation which will allow the Iraqi Navy to maintain and sustain its growing fleet," said U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Kelvin Dixon, director, Iraqi Training and Advising Mission-Navy.

NAVSEA said it began last year to acquire, install and provide training for maintenance and repair equipment. The SRF is divided in five major work centers. NAVSEA installed more than 40 industrial machines and also provided spare parts and support equipment.

In addition to supplying equipment and training Iraqi personnel, NAVSEA helped in the repair and maintenance of legacy Iraqi patrol boats.

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Agreement with a Korean company to build 8 vessels
23 Dec. 2011


Department of Transportation announced today that the General Company for Maritime Transport affiliates has conducted talks with South Korean company to build new ships to Iraq.

A ministry statement said the two sides agreed to build 8 vessels with multiple sizes and varieties from South Korea and in a manner of postpaiment.

The statement added that the contract of construction of these ships will be signed next year.

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Iraq to Buy 3 More Ships from South Korea
January 3 2012


Iraq’s Transport Ministry said on Monday that it had agreed with the South Korean Doosan company to buy three 17,000 tonne vessels at a cost of $73 million (85 billion IQD), according to AKnews.

Samir al-Karkhi, director of Marine Shipping Company, told the news agency that the Ministry of Transport is making efforts to restore Iraq’s merchant fleet, adding that the three vessels will begin working under an Iraqi flag officially next year.

The Transport Ministry announced last week that Iraq has spent $14 million USD (16 billion IQD) on a 7,000 tonne commercial freighter to be known as ‘the Baghdad’.

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صورة للباخرة بغداد التي تعاقد العراق على صناعتها في الصين وبلغت نسبة الانجاز فيها لحد الان 70 بالمئة

This Vessel will begin service in March 2012, currently it's being tested in China. Two More vessels are contracted for.

the General Company of Iraqi Ports one of the formations of Ministry of Transport signed a contract with the Chinese company( AVIC) for the purchase of three naval haulers with the capacity of (4500hp) and floating fuel tank with the capacity of(100ton )and diving boat with all its accessories .The contract which falls within the Japanese loan projects was signed by the Iraqi side Captain Mohammed Hussein Abdullah, head of the loan project, and for the Chinese side the director of ( AVIC) Mr.Com Jay. The contract is valued at approximately sixty million U.S. dollars. The contract will be completed within twenty-one months including the period of the arrival of units from China to Umm Qasr port. The Iraqi port has signed several contracts with companies of different nationalities within the Japanese loan projects which included the offshore drilling rigs, supply and handling equipment and the development of contender yard ,civil works and services and the supply of a floating crane same of these has been completed and some remain under development and will conclude with a project loan projects LotA2 specialized in the issue of The marine dredger Basra which has not contracted it yet.

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More Pics: http://www.scmt.gov.iq/files/newship-2.pdf

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Iraqi Marine Oil Terminal to be Ready 25th Jan
Jan 15 2012


The first of four new single-point mooring facilities will be ready to commence operations on Jan. 25, according to a report from Bloomberg.

If correct, this would be a pull-forward of the schedule reported by Reuters on 4th Jan.

Dhia Jaafar, director general of South Oil Company, said the project involves laying pipelines, building eight storage tanks and three other mooring facilities.

Each of the four facilities will add 900,000 bpd to the country’s capacity to export crude oil, Hussain al- Shahristani, deputy prime minister for energy affairs, said last month.

[sheytanElKebir]

For the first time in decades. Sea shipping starting sailing up the Shatt al Arab to the new port constructed by Shell Oil Company at the Majnoon Oil Field.

[SumerianKing]

good news Thanks.

[Euphrates]

Iraq Takes Delivery of New $14m Ship from China
Posted on 11 April 2012.

Iraq’s Transportation Ministry sent a crew of five sailors to China to take delivery of a new $14m (16.3bn IQD) ship for the Iraqi fleet.
The Iraqi Naval Transportation Company contracted China’s ANT to construct the 7,000-ton ship, which will carry goods from China to Iraq and will “reinforce Iraqi marine trade”.
This brings to nine the number of large ships in the Iraqi fleet, with a total value of $110m (128bn IQD).

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Iraq will offer contracts for the construction of eight cargo ships over the next four years in an effort to expand its fleet, the director general of the state naval transport company said.
The government expects in the next two weeks to take delivery of a $14 million cargo vessel built by Avic Dingheng Shipbuilding Co. of China, Sameer Abdul Razzaq said in a telephone interview today in Baghdad. The ship, named the “Baghdad,” will have a loading capacity of 7,800 metric tons, he said.
Iraq signed a $73 million contract in December with South Korea’s Daesun Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. for three vessels due for delivery in 26 months, he said.
The Iraqi government owns a single serviceable cargo ship, Razzaq said. The country’s other ships either sank or fell into disrepair after taking refuge outside Iraq during the 1990 Gulf War, he said. Iraq holds the world’s fifth-largest crude deposits and is seeking to rebuild its economy and infrastructure after decades of conflict and sanctions.
To contact the reporters on this story: Khalid Al-Ansary in Baghdad through the Dubai newsroom at kalansary@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Maher Chmaytelli at mchmaytelli@bloomberg.net

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The Iraqi Oil Tankers Co. offered a tender for the purchase or the construction of a crude oil tanker with a capacity of 6,000 metric tons or more.
Companies can submit bids until April 23, according to the website of the state-owned company.
The tanker will be the Iraqi government’s third state-owned oil transport vessel, as it currently operates two 13,500-ton tankers bought in 2007 and 2008. Iraq’s fleet of about 15 oil tankers was destroyed or fell into disrepair since the country’s war with neighboring Iran in the 1980s and subsequent conflicts in the region.

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Khor al zubair port.
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the "power ship" floating power station in khor al zubair.
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Khor Al Zubair LPG terminal
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unused jetties in khor al zubair

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Khor Al Amaya offshore oil loading platform.
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