Transportation Sector
First: Railways State Company
| no | Project name | Details | length | Number of lines | Signals & communication | Axial load/ ton | Speed (km/h) | Total transport (million) | Estimate cost (million USD) | Project implementation period | ||||
| passengers | Goods/ton | passengers | Goods/ ton | Acquisitions | implementation | total | ||||||||
| 1 | Basra- Fao | Detailed designs were recently conducted by German consulting company (Dorsh Group) | 100 | double | ERTMS/ level 2/1 | 25 | 140 | 100 | 1 | 70 | 300 | 1410 | 1710 | 3 years |
| 2 | Baghdad- Kut- Umara- Basra Branch line (Kut- Nasriya- Um Qasir) |
Detailed designs (1982) prepared by British Henderson Hughes are old and most of them are lost. The main line (Baghdad- Kut- Umara- Basra) is 504 km –double. The Branch line (Kut- Nasriya- Um Qasir) is 406 km –double. Designs need to be updated with a new feasible study to the project. |
100 | double | 2730 | 11000 | ||||||||
| 3 | Sheaba- Zubair- Marbid- Safwan- Kuwait | Detailed designs were recently conducted by Italian (Ital Fair). Length shall be according to future projects, final length might be 14kn only from Marbid to Safwan/ Kuwait- Al Hadeed)
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52 | double | ERTMS/ level 2 | 25 | 250 | 140 | 2 | 20 | 150 | 500 | 650 | 3 years |
Second: State Company for Iraqi Civil Aviation
| No. | Agency | Project name | Location | Plot no. | Area | Estimated cost in USD/time | Notes | |
| 1 | State Company for Civil Aviation | Full services complex (commercial, tourists, residential) | Basra / Basra International Airport | Plot 13/7715 Q 42 Toba & Nekhela | 100 domun | · Plot to the east south of the airport (private property) outside the secured fence
· Area can be used as HQs to foreign companies working in Iraq especially in oil and gas sector |
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| 2 | State Company for Iraqi Railways | A number of plots | Southern provinces (Babylon, Muthana, Basra) | All plots are private property, can be used for commercial, industrial, agricultural purposes according to location. | ||||
