IRAQI DEVELOPMENT ROAD project, a massive multinational undertaking that will help ease global shipment bottlenecks, is progressing fast as #Baghdad announces the completion of a 1200km section of highway and railway that will connect it to the Turkish transportation networks. #Ankara too is building new roads and railways, to increase capacity in the region, that will be tendered out later this year.

IDR will help Iraq become a major commercial & logistics hub in the region, creating new jobs and helping with sustaining the Iraqi economy. Goods shipped through the IDR will reach Türkiye and on to Europe a lot faster than via the Red Sea route which passes through contested waters and near warzones like off Yemen and Israel, dramatically reducing risk and insurance costs.