5 cargo ships arrive at Basra ports

Basra's ports of Umm al-Qasr and Khour al-Zubeir have received five ships carrying varied cargos, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports has said.

 

Today Umm al-Qasr port received two Panamanian ships carrying 294 containers and a varied cargo, Abdul Kareem al-Basri has stated.

Three other ships arrived today at Khour al-Zubeir port: the first was Sierra Leonean with 1,000 tons of varied cargo, the second was Panamanian and carried 3,100 tons of cargo, while the third was from India and transported a varied cargo as well, al-Basri noted.

 

The Shiite province of Basra, 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has five commercial ports and two oil ports: al-Maaqal, established in 1916 by the British forces and handed over to Iraqi authorities in 1937; and Faw, a small port on the al-Faw Peninsula near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf.

In the early 1970s, Umm al-Qasr port was built, and in 1974, Khour al-Zubeir and Abu Falous ports were established on the Shatt al-Arab.

Source: Aswat Aliraq