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Fesh Khabour is 213 km from Hassaka and 123 km from Qamishli. 
The road from Hassaka to Khan Al-Jabal (180 km from Hassaka) is in good condition.The road has a width of 7m and a maximum truck capacity of 43Mt. 
Khan Al-Jabal to Fesh Khabour is 33 km and is a secondary asphalt road with a width of 3m and a with maximum truck capacity of 20Mt. 
In some places the secondary road is in poor condition, especially near the final destination of Fesh Khabour, the final water crossing point in SAR at the Iraqi Border 
There is a police station and a small open yard which is used as parking for trucks 

 

For commercial use, the current way of crossing the river is floating bridges. 

Iraqi bridge: used for importing, where trucks pass to Syria side. 

Syrian bridge: used for exporting, where the trucks returned from Syria side to Iraq side.   

The two bridges allowed maximum truck gross weight 26MT, and total long of each is about 100M. 

 

For exporting: the bridge fees are 20$ for each loaded truck when pass the bridge. 

This fees are paid to SA who manged this Crosspoint, as no more info regarding the fees paid to Iraqi side. 

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