 With the help of the Nasser trading family, the Nairn Transport Company was established and the first official trip made on 18 October 1923.The new arrangements cut the transit time for mail from Baghdad to Europe to around 10 days from the 30 days previously required.Mail had previously travelled by ship from Port Said, via the Suez Canal, around the Arab Peninsula to the port of Basrah and then by rail to Baghdad.