Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander, Multinational Force-Iraq, reacts to a comment from a member of Joint Interagency Task Force-Iraq, Nov. 21, during a briefing about the taskforce?s progress at the Port of Umm Qasr and its effort to meet mandates under the International Ship and Port Facility Code ? a certification that more countries are obtaining to gain a larger slice of the global shipping marketplace. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. David Bennett)
Workers at Port of Umm Qsar load bags of grain from a cargo vessel that entered the port Nov. 23. The Joint Interagency Task Force-Iraq (JIATF) and Iraqi partners are working to gain International Ship and Port Facility Code certification to entice more maritime business to Iraq.(U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. David Bennett)
