Japanese firm wins Iraq port contract

04 June 2018

Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation has won the $110m contract to rehabilitate and build berths at Umm Qasr Port in the southern Iraqi region of Basra.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) is financing the project, which covers the expansion of an oil products berth at Khor al-Zubair Port and the construction of a new service berth for ships and boats at Umm Qasr Port.

Mitsubishi said in a statement it will work with multiple subcontractors including Turkish firms Calik Enerji, an energy infrastructure provider, and Gap Insaat, a construction firm.

Other expansion works at Umm Qasr Port are under way.

Basra Gateway Terminal, the Iraqi subsidiary of Philippines-based International Container Terminal Services Incorporated (ICTSI), expects to complete the development of berths 25 and 26 at Umm Qasr Port by the end of 2019.

A local contracting firm began work on the $130m development of the two berths earlier this year.

The addition of two operating berths will take the terminal’s capacity from 650,000 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) to 1.3 million TEUs, according to Phillip Marsham, CEO, Basra Gateway Terminal.

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