» Home » Business News Iraq Directory Services Plans Subscription Contact us Site Map Help About Iraq Commercial movement between Iraq and jordan activated It has been revealed in Jordan that the Jordanian cabinet had approved the establishing of a free zone to invest with a capital reaches to $85 millions. The spokeswoman of the Jordanian government, the Minister of Culture Mrs. Assma Khadher pointed out during her weekly press release that this project supposed to provide 20,000 work opportunities, indicating that investment in this region includes service, industry, transport and other domains related with effectuating the trade movement between Iraq and Jordan, confirming that JD 64 millions had been allocated to upgrade services at the current customs boarder port and establishing another developed customs boarder port to take into consideration the big and expand daily needs between the two countries a matter that contributes in flowing movement whereas the old port had witnessed daily suffocations. Mrs. Assma Khuder said that the new port will facilitate many matters related with traffic suffocations subject between the two Iraqi-Jordanian boarder check points.She expected that the new port will witness grand commercial movement harmonizes with volume of trade exchanging between the two countries and efforts exerted by the Iraqi government in process of reconstructing Iraq. Concerning the visit attributed by the Jordanian King Abdullah II to the border customs area close to Iraq, the spokeswoman of the Jordanian government said that the aim behind this visit is to get acquaint with this area closely and instructed the related sides to adopt all procedures necessary for establishing a new border port, besides developing and upgrading the current customs port. Relating to facilitate the entrance of Iraqis to Jordan, Mrs. Assma Khadher confirmed that an order had been asserted to consolidate all efforts to facilitate entrance of Iraqis to Jordan, indicating that the period of accomplishing the form will not be more than 10 minutes. © 2002-2004 Iraq Directory - All Rights Reserved