Daewoo Engineering & Construction has completed a 62-kilometer expressway project linking Al Faw New Port and Umm Qasr in southern Iraq.
Daewoo Engineering & Construction said on the 8th that it received the final completion certificate for the Al Faw consolidation road from the Iraqi Ports Authority, the client.
The project is a design-build turnkey contract worth a total of $440 million. Daewoo Engineering & Construction carried it out alone. Work began in Aug. 2021 and continued for 45 months through May 2025, followed by about a year of defect repair, leading to final completion.
The road consists of a four-lane round-trip expressway, two bridges, one interchange, and three roundabouts, and is the first section of Iraq's national strategic project "Development Road." It is expected to serve as core infrastructure for an international logistics network extending through Turkey to Europe.
A Daewoo Engineering & Construction official said, "Even amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical risks in the Middle East, this is a representative overseas infrastructure success case that satisfied schedule, quality, and safety," adding, "Based on our accumulated technology, we will continue to expand business opportunities in Iraq as well as in the large-scale infrastructure market across the Middle East."
Meanwhile, Daewoo Engineering & Construction has carried out a total of nine projects worth about $3.78 billion in the Al Faw New Port development, starting with the world's longest breakwater project in Iraq in 2014 (total length 15.8 kilometers), followed by container terminal quay and dredging and reclamation work, a consolidation road, and an immersed tunnel.