French airport operator Aeroports de Paris has won a contract to work on plans for a new international airport in Iraq, a spokesman for ADP said on Monday.
Iraqi Transport Minister Amer Abdul-Jabbar said the contract was worth around $42.5 million.
He said the airport would be built between the three provinces of Kerbala, Najaf and Hilla, which are home to some of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest cities. Hundreds of thousands of Shi’ite pilgrims have visited them since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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