Emirati firm sends massive vacuum unit to Iraqi refinery

The head of Gulftainer’s Iraq operations said the shipment shows the industry is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iraq port
This picture taken on March 14, 2021 shows an aerial view of containers being unloaded off a cargo ship moored at the port of Umm Qasr, south of Iraq's southern city of Basra. - HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images
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A United Arab Emirates-based company has shipped a massive vacuum unit to a refinery in Iraq. 

The Sharjah-based port operator Gulftainer brought the 121-ton, 35-meter-long vacuum to its Iraq Container located in the southern port city of Umm Qasr this week. The vacuum was made for the UAE-based Midland Refineries Company and will be used in an oil refinery in the Iraqi city of Najaf, also in the south, the official Emirates News Agency reported today. 

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