SANY Group assists in constructing Iraqi airport
SANY truck mixers and wheel loaders on-site at the new Nasiriyah International Airport.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – In 2021, Former Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, hosted a contract signing ceremony between the Bureau of Civil Aviation of Iraq and the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) for the construction of Nasiriyah International Airport.
Since the project began, eight units of SANY Group’s equipment assisted in constructing the Iraqi airport. The type of SANY equipment used in the project included truck mixers, batching plants, wheel loaders and telehandlers.
The new airport, which has a capacity of 750,000 people annually, is anticipated to replace the current aviation center in south Iraq and help the region’s economy, investment climate, and traffic growth.
A terminal building, an air traffic control building, a cargo facility, a 25-kilometer airport highway, ancillary facilities, and the reconstruction of the runway and parking apron are all included in the $367 million contract for the project.
“It is not an easy task to transform a nearly deserted airport into an international airport for large aircrafts,” said Liu Feilong, Chief Engineer at CSCEC. “This is the reason why we chose SANY.”
With its headquarters in Changsha, Hunan, Sany Group is a Chinese manufacturer of heavy equipment. It is presently the third-largest producer of heavy equipment worldwide and the first company in its sector to represent China in the FT Global 500 and Forbes Global 2000 rankings.