BASRA UNIVERSITY HOLDS A SCIENTIFIC AND ECONOMIC SYMPOSIOM ON THE GRAND PORT OF FAW AND THE DRY CSANAL ….REALITY AND CHALLENGES
On Wednesday 30-9-2020 the deanship of the college of Administration and Economic held its scientific symposium entitled (The Grand Port Of Faw and the Dry Canal …Reality and Challenges), in the presence of the President of Basra University, Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, and a number of deans of the university’s faculties, as well as a number of important figures and officials in Basra and the General Company for Iraqi ports and the Arab Gulf Academy for Maritime Studies.
The session was chaired by the dean of the college of Administration and Economics, Dr. Abdul-Hussein Tawfiq Shibli, and lectures were attended by Prof. Dr. Nabil Al-Marsoumi, Assistant professor Dr. Shaaban Saddam Al-Emara and assistant Professor Dr. Ahmed Saddam Abdel-Saheb.
The symposium dealt with three important axes, where the first axis showed the faw Grand Port project and the high intensity expected from Mubark Port, the second axis explained the obstacles to the implementation stages of the faw Port Project, while the third axis dealt with the importance of the dry canal and the rail link in enhancing the role of the economics port as a hub port in the future.
The symposium aimed to shed light on the reasons for the delay in the completion of the port and the challenges of competition from the Grand Mubark seaport in Kuwait.
The symposium concluded that there are no economic policies that take into account regional developments in the field of investment in ports.
The symposium recommended the necessity of expediting the completion of the great port Faw project because of its great importance in providing job opportunities and supporting the Iraqi economy in general.
The symposium also recommended taking into consideration the development that taking place in similar regional projects that will compete independently with the Faw project.