PM directs to rehabilitate Safwan port in preparation for Gulf 25

Baghdad-INA  
The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers announced today, Tuesday, the issuance of a directive from Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi to rehabilitate the Safwan port in preparation for Gulf 25.
A spokesman for the General Secretariat, Haider Majid, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "according to the directive of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, the necessity of taking all measures and procedures to prepare to receive the 25th Gulf Arab Cup in Basra Governorate, one of the companies began to rehabilitate Safwan border port."
Majid said, "This was done in direct coordination between the Border Ports Authority, represented by Major General Omar Adnan Al-Waeli, and Basra Governorate, represented by its governor, Asaad Al-Eidani," noting that "the rehabilitation process will include providing all services, infrastructure and gates for the port on its Iraqi and Kuwaiti sides."
"The rehabilitate work will include the constructing of a hall for arrivals and departures, as well as the establishment of a VIP lounge with the rehabilitation of all roads in the port, and allocation of liquefied water to it from the Safwan Water Directorate," explaining that "all these procedures are going according to what was planned." Majid added.