{"id":269417,"date":"2026-08-29T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269417\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:04:08","slug":"shafaq-news-erbil-exhibition-firms-explore-new-investments-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269417\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafaq News..Erbil exhibition firms explore new investments in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-29T19:42:57+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Erbil<\/p>\n<p>Local and international<br \/>\ncompanies at the Erbil International Construction and Building Exhibition are<br \/>\npursuing partnerships and investment opportunities in Iraq, with a focus on<br \/>\nmodern building technologies, sustainable energy, and infrastructure solutions.<\/p>\n<p>More than 450 exhibitors from<br \/>\n20 Arab and foreign countries are taking part in the four-day <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Kurdistan\/Kurdistan-Region-grants-900-investment-permits-since-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">event<\/a>, which began<br \/>\non Thursday and includes business-to-business (B2B) meetings linking overseas<br \/>\nparticipants with Iraqi investors.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s expanding<br \/>\ninfrastructure sector is creating opportunities for cooperation with foreign<br \/>\npartners, Abdul Malik Qasim, manager of an Iraqi firm at the exhibition, told<br \/>\nShafaq News. \u201cIt is a real opportunity to secure strategic contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Saif Awad, who represents<br \/>\nanother company at the exhibition, the interest extends beyond selling<br \/>\nconstruction materials. Businesses, he said, increasingly see Iraq as an<br \/>\ninvestment destination where they can introduce new technologies and transfer<br \/>\nengineering expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure consultant<br \/>\nSarah Mohammed highlighted sustainable construction and energy efficiency as<br \/>\nmajor areas of interest, noting that discussions with investors reflected \u201ca<br \/>\nserious desire to turn memoranda of understanding into projects on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-29T19:42:57+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Erbil Local and international companies at the Erbil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,1111,73675,73676,893,94],"class_list":["post-269417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-erbil","tag-erbil-exhibition-firms-explore-new-investments-in-iraq","tag-international-construction-and-building-exhibition","tag-investment","tag-iraq"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117180594009820849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}