Iraqi berths get the IMO codes
08:29 - 10/01/2019
BAGHDAD
(Reuters) - Transport Minister Abdullah Laibi announced on Thursday that five of the Iraqi seaports will have official symbols at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
"The berths 8, 2, 4 and 3 were recorded at the port of Khor al-Zubayr and berth 9 at the southern port of Umm Qasr today on the IMO site as pavements operating in security procedures equivalent to the provisions of the International Code," he said in a statement received by Mawazine News. For the security of ships and port facilities ISPS ".
"All of the five ports of the General Company for Iraqi Ports have obtained codes at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to complement what has been achieved by registering 8 berths and coding 3 ports," he said.
He pointed out that "the berths will be numbered and declared respectively, according to the operators of the pavements meet the criteria of security assessment carried out by the International Code Section."