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The Iraqi minister to the Transports has visited the port of Gioia Tauro
In the Middle Eastern nation the construction of the new port of Al Faw is on
September 17, 2012
The Iraqi minister to the Transports, Hadi al-Amiri, has made visit to the port of Gioia Tauro where, accompanied by the Iraqi ambassador in Italy, Saywan Barzani, he is received by the president and the general secretary of the Harbour Authority, Giovanni Grimaldi and Salvatore Silvestri.
In the course of the day to the minister, whom reached with the attempt to know in the detail the calabrian port of call, the structural parameters of the port are described technically and in particular the infrastructural and operating system of the port of call is illustrated, to the vanguard in Italy and the Mediterranean, with able docks to receive, at the same time, three ships of last generation. Meanwhile they are described to the new projects of development in support of the port of call of transhipment that the Harbour Authority is putting in field: between these, mainly, the railway gateway for giving added value to the port, inside an intermodal system of traffics that give the sea can in efficient way reach the outback. Successively the Iraqi hosts are accompanied in the harbour area in order to visit the complex infrastructural system and the relative security systems of which the port of call he is equipped.
"I have intentional to visit this hub international of transhipment - minister Hadi al-Amiri has declared - in order knowing, directly, its creator and, therefore, its complex infrastructural and organizational system. In this moment, my government is constructing to a new port from the operating caratteriste similar to those of Gioia Tauro (the port of Al Faw, ( on April 17, 2009 and 6 April 2010, ndr). It is clear, therefore, than, in order better to operate, we have decided to take this truth for example. I add, also, now that I have had a chance for know it, personally, of to have found optimal a governance and a efficient operativity. Anyway - it has concluded the representative of the Iraqi executive - for me it has not been a surprise. This visit is served to me, also, to find confirmation of this that I already thought: altogether and in its field, I believe that the port of Gioia Tauro is the best port of call than transhipment in the Mediterranean".
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The Iraqi minister to the Transports, Hadi al-Amiri, has made visit to the port of Gioia Tauro where, accompanied by the Iraqi ambassador in Italy, Saywan Barzani, he is received by the president and the general secretary of the Harbour Authority, Giovanni Grimaldi and Salvatore Silvestri.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
