Umm Qasr Back in Business After $38 Million in Repairs

摘要

After $38 million worth of postwar repair work, business is returning to Umm Qasr, Iraq's primary portal to the Persian Gulf. Early this month, a Norwegian grain carrier unloaded the first wheat cargo since fighting halted shipments. The busy trading activity at the port is tangible proof of U.S. contractor Bech-tel's successful renovation effort, says Bob Sinnott, Bechtel senior project manager. When the Bechtel team arrived in late April, it set out to determine what was needed to get the port fully operational again. "The first thing we had to do was dredge the harbor," Sinnott says.