Barry Neild | AFP | Basra

Iraq has extended until March a deadline for foreign investors to tender bids for 10-year concessions in its once-booming southern ports.

Abdul Razzaq Katea Hassan, director-general of the Iraqi ports authority, based in the southern city of Basra, said the mammoth project to rebuild Iraq's cluster of five ports around the country's small section of Gulf coast already had attracted enormous interest.

"The deadline was supposed to be in January, but we want to give a chance to other companies that haven't yet had the opportunity to present their offers," he said ......
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