Press Release
Basra Gateway Terminal wishes you Ramadan Kareem.
May this Ramadan bring you and your loved ones the utmost in peace and prosperity. We wish you a Happy Ramadan!
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Dear Valued Customer
Please be guided we have been advised that certain charges of the IPA tariff will be increased by 6% shortly to cover an electronic data fee that IPA is implementing. This is obviously a charge outside our control and when implemented we will have to pass on this charge dire…
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Dear Valued Customer
Based on feedback from various Iraq Authorities, we expect the start-up challenges of the new system to be resolved over the next few days and as such we would hope deliveries to return to normal by the end of the week. We will advise all parties if this doesn’t go accordin…
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Dear Valued Customer,
As advised, we have started to see deliveries commencing from both Berth 20 and 27 at BGT.
Yesterday (Friday) 1,027 TEUs were delivered from our terminals.
AS such the start-up challenges of the new system appears to be resolved for the majority of importers as they regis…
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Dear Distinguished Customer
We are delighted to advise you that over the last few days we are seeing a very large number of containers being released indicating the end of the delays due to the new Customs Electronic System start up. The good news is that customs duty on many items has significan…
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Dear Valued Customer
As most of you are aware, today the Iraqi Customs introduced an electronic documentation system throughout all ports and borders in Iraq to ensure a common method of documentation and charges at all ports and borders.
This has caused some confusion but for many goods the ta…
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Dear Valued Customer
Reference our customs announcement (dated 17th and 20th February), the new customs process starting from 17th of February requires consignees to have license from appropriate ministries which is taking a few days to get issued. However, we expect the situation to go back to nor…
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Dear Valued Customer
Reference our customs announcement (dated 17th and 20th February), the new customs process starting from 17th of February requires consignees to have license from appropriate ministries which is taking a few days to get issued. However, we expect the situation to go back to…
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Dear Valued Customer
Further to our advisory on 13th January, we are pleased to advise the new BGT Customs at Berth 27 are now operating smoothly, and a few clients who had experienced some challenges are now satisfied due to the efficient and smooth process that is fully aligned with the proced…
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Dear Valued Customer
On December 24th 2018, a new customs area was created for Berth 27 called BGT Customs Area. The timing was not as per BGT’s request but upon announcement from the Government we needed to move ahead.
In the first two weeks of the start-up phase, there were some unfortunat…
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