Starting the railway connection with neighboring countries before the end of this year

Baghdad - INA

General Company for the Implementation of Transport and Communications Projects confirmed, today, Thursday, the implementation of the railway connection project with neighboring countries before the end of this year, indicating the need for large financing and appropriation of the lands through which the lines pass.
The general manager of the company, Zaid Khalil Al-Asadi, said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the railway connection with neighboring countries is taking into account the interest of Iraq, so that it is in parallel with the construction of ports and the transit service, and in a way that serves the transport work, and Iraq is destined for the rail link in parallel with The ports file, the Faw port plan includes the dry canal from Basra to Turkey, which should be rehabilitated. "