Alla Spezia is begun the project of formation of the managing staff of new the great Iraqi port of Al Faw



Today to the project of formation of the managing staff of new the great Iraqi port of Al Faw is begun, that it will rise with an investment of five billions of euro in the province of Bassora, along the Khar Abd Allah, in a not far area from the river mouth of the rivers Tigris and the Euphrates ( on April 17, 2009 and 6 April 2010)

The project in order to realize that which will be one of greatest harbour infrastructures of the Middle East previews the construction of beyond 10 kilometers of docks, areas of storage goods and silos for grain for 4,6 million square metres, a million square metres of roads, railroads and services. The traffic volume container that is previewed to the maximum of its development is pairs to seven million teu per year, about 20.000 container to the day.

The contract for the realization of the project is signed last year with the minister of the Transports and the minister of the Planning and the Iraqi Cooperation to the Development from a consortium which they take part Impregilo, Fincosit, Todini, Moratti, Conducts, Technital, Europe Project, Sima, Rsg Projects.

Besides the participations of infrastructural type a plan of preparation of the staff has become necessary who will be in charge of the management of the port. Ideatore of the formative project, financed from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in close collaboration with the Iraqi government, is admiral Dino Nascetti, president of Promostudi. Front man is the Harbour Authority of that will take care of superviewing and coordinating the job carried out from the subjects involved in the realization (National School Transports and Logistica and Cisita advanced formation that will cure the aspects more specifically relative to the formation of the managerial levels of the new port and the University of the Studies - Roma Tre - Department of Sciences of the Civil engineering for the aspects more specifically relative to the formation of the technical planners who will operate in the same within).

Today near the Harbour Authority of they were you anticipate, besides the first 20 selected Iraqi professionals, the president of from Liguria harbour agency, Lorenzo Forcieri, admiral Nascetti, deputy mayor of Lerici, Gaetano Saia, president of the National School Trasporti, Pier Gino Scardigli, and the president of the Cisita, Giorgio Bucchioni.

"We are very happy - Forcieri has commented - for coordinating a project that values the know-how-how of our territory and contributes to the development of the economic and social woven one of Iraq. Task that to form people is important how much to realize infrastructures and today we are proud to contribute to the formative process of the managing pictures of the young Iraqi nation. They are sure that also this project will contribute to strengthen the civil collaboration and the relationships of friendship with Iraq and I hope that also from this other forms of economic cooperation can be developed, in the interest of the two Countries".

The 20 Iraqi will reside to, to Lerici, and will attend the lessons that will carry out near the National School Transports that will be estates, between the others, from teacher of the Polytechnic of Turin, the University of the Studies of Genoa, Cagliari, Pisa, from advisers of the groups ENI and FS, from leaders of the Harbour Authority, experts of shipping. Moreover the main local harbour operators will supply testimonies. The formation of the participants will last seven months, comprised an activity of project work in Iraq.

To January another group of 20 Iraqi will arrive in Italy that will participate to Sottoprogetto 2, relative to the technical formation, that one will last five months more than training divided in four Italian yards of civil engineering. This group will be stopped to Rome and will attend the lessons near Roma Tre University.