Agreement with the first American company to invest in ground services at Baghdad Airport

Agreement with the first American company to invest in ground services at Baghdad Airport By SR Published 21.7.2008, 01:51

Uzmatik / Erbil
A Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transportation Iraqi banks from Rick talks with American company specializing in training and ground services at airports to invest in ground services Baghdad International Airport. For his part, said Senior Adviser to the Ministry of Transport Buhdar Abdul Razzaq Hassan, the ministry and the U.S. company "had reached a tentative agreement granted the right to invest in some service areas at airports beginning Iraqi Baghdad Airport, and pending the completion of certain procedures and checks to sign a final contract with the company during the next two months ". وي".His advisor Hassan in an interview with "Uzmatik", the company Aevrgaren "from companies known at the global level, which provides shipping services and maintenance of equipment, aircraft and train Cadres and other services at airports," pointing out that "the talks were conducted at two meetings held in Baghdad the month of July Monday, was the first agreement to use their services at Baghdad Airport first, and then expand to other airports is expected to be the next Basra airport. "
The advisor to the Ministry of Transportation that "the offer made by the U.S. company of the ministry needs to be some adjustments and will be done in the coming period before signing a final agreement with them, and expected to be signed contract with the current year within the next two months."
According to the initial agreement between the two sides will be shared imports of services to be provided by the company between them and the Ministry of Transport by 50% each.
He explained that the good information they have available indicates that "the limits of the U.S. company's operations extend to different parts of the world from America to Japan, and the company's good reputation it has never paid any fines or damages due to accidents loss of any material shipped during 16 years at Airports It works. "
The advisor to the Ministry of Transportation at the conclusion of a recent "Uzmatik," this is the first time to be carried out by the Iraqi government to offer ground services at airports for investment to foreign companies, noting that the successful application of experience at the airport in Baghdad will put them used it at other airports, adding that the final agreement Would need the approval of the Cabinet and the National Investment Authority.
The company Aevrgaren had already submitted two years ago made a presentation to the Ministry of Transport on the subject of ground services at airports Iraq, but has not been time to achieve results.

It is noteworthy that the Baghdad International Airport is one of the largest airports in Iraq, formerly called Saddam International Airport is located in the Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad, and French companies have built in the period between 1979 - 1982 has been designed for civilian and military uses.
They stopped the activities of the airport entirely following the second Gulf War in 1990 and imposed economic embargo on Iraq, except for some domestic flights and flights of a humanitarian nature for the transport of medicines and food to Iraq by charitable organizations.