Iraq's dilapidated transport infrastructure is on the road to recovery after decades of neglect but funding is inadequate and the new transport minister is seeking outside investors, AFP reported.
Factionalism and corruption was rife when Amer Abduljabbar Ismail took the helm at a government department considered to be one of the most dysfunctional in the war-battered country.
Now Ismail has the ministry moving forward again and recently signed a preliminary accord with Air France-KLM which will see Iraqi Airways taking off for European destinations and Baghdad's airport being renovated.
Topping his ambitious list of projects that also includes revamping the nation's bombed out and looted railway network is a US$4.4 billion dollar container port in Iraq's Al-Fao in the south.
Despite initial successes the ministry's budget of $450 million is far too small to fulfil Ismail's Iraq's basic transport needs.
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