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jaihoon
03/25/03 at 13:51:31
US firm wins Umm Qasr deal
bbc.co.uk

There was greater resistance in Umm Qasr than the US expected
A US company has won a $4.8m (£3m) contract to manage Umm Qasr port in southern Iraq.
The contract is the second awarded under US Government plans for reconstruction in Iraq.

Stevedoring Services of America will be responsible for operating Iraq's only deep-water port, with the aim of allowing food and other humanitarian and reconstruction materials and supplies to be delivered efficiently.

The company "will provide an initial port assessment, develop improvement plans... and supply technical expertise to ensure an adequate flow of through shipment", said the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the client for the project.

"The company will be responsible for the port pilots who will guide ships up the channel, and will manage the access of trucking companies to the port and establish a system of controls to avoid theft and corruption."

Analysis: UK firms' view  

USAID did not say when work would start on the contract or how long it would last.

UK ports operator P&O said it had put in a bid for the Umm Qasr work but had been unsuccessful.

UK complaints

US engineering firm Kellogg Brown & Root - part of Halliburton, the company once headed by US vice-president Dick Cheney - earlier picked up a contract to put out oil well fires and repair oil facilities.

The US Army Corps of Engineers, which let the contract, said the work would be of "limited duration" and was on a "cost-plus" basis with no defined value.

Earlier this month, USAID invited five US engineering giants to submit bids for Iraq reconstruction work expected to be worth up to $900m.

The companies were Bechtel, Louis Berger, Fluor, Kellogg Brown & Root and The Parsons Corporation.

USAID plans call for operating ports and airports and repairing utility networks, roads, bridges, schools and hospitals.

UK construction firms have complained privately about not being invited to bid. But it is thought possible that some will pick up sub-contracting work from US lead contractors.
Re: hurry for DEALS even before war ends
Muneerah134
03/27/03 at 09:28:24
This was on Forbes' website from Reuters...

Halliburton wins contract on Iraq oil firefighting
Reuters, 03.06.03, 8:31 PM ET

HOUSTON, March 6 (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. (nyse: HAL) subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) has won the contract to oversee any firefighting operations at Iraqi oilfields after any U.S.-led invasion, a Defense Department source said on Thursday.

KBR was widely viewed by many in the oilfield services industry as the likely candidate to oversee firefighting in Iraq's oilfields. Halliburton does extensive logistic support work for the U.S. military.

Vice President Dick Cheney served as Halliburton's chief executive officer from 1995 to 2000,

A possible beneficiary of Thursday's deal is oilwell firefighting company Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc., with which Halliburton has had an alliance since 1995.

A Halliburton spokeswoman declined comment and referred all questions to the Defense Department.

Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service


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