VOL. XXXIII

NO. 6

13-NOVEMBER-1989

Iraq

Dutch Firms Awarded Contract for Dredging Khor Abdallah to Receive LPGTankers

Iraq's Ministry of Transport and Communications has awarded an ID14.1mn($45.7mn) contract to a Dutch joint venture of Volker Stevin Dredging andBoskalis International for the dredging of Khor Abdallah which lies at thenorthern tip of the Gulf, west of Fao and leading to the ports of Umm Qasr andKhor al-Zubair. The eight-month contract entails the dredging of 21mn cu. ms. ofsilt and...