Loading and unloading of goods rose 16 percent at Shahid Rajaee port, Iran’s largest and most-equipped container port, during the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22), as compared to the same period of time in the past year, a provincial official stated.

Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Gholam-Hossein Shafei in a meeting with Ambassador of Finland to Tehran Mr. Keijo Norvanto said the Iran-Finland Joint Chamber of Commerce will start its activities in three weeks and expressed hope it would boost the economic and trade ties between the two countries.

TEDPIX, the main index of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), rose 17,716 points to 1.375 million on Tuesday.

The value of Iran’s export from the mining sector stood at $1.29 billion in the third Iranian calendar month Khordad (May 22-June 21), which was a record high, the data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) indicates.

The director of the Goreh-Jask oil transfer project’s storage tanks said that according to the planning done for Makran region, 10 million barrels of storage capacity will not definitely meet the need in the future, so increasing storage capacity in the second and third phases is inevitable.

Denmark’s Ambassador to Tehran Mr. Jesper Vahr in meeting with the head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Mr. Gholam-Hossein Shafei called for improving the joint commercial committee of Iran and Denmark to the Iran-Denmark Joint Chamber of Commerce and reiterated the approval of the FATF bill in Iran will ease the trade exchange between the two countries.

President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated several major gas projects on Sunday afternoon.

Tehran Stock Exchange and Tajikistan’s Central Asian Stock Exchange (CASE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop joint activities.

Iranian Agriculture Ministry plans to construct 3,052 hectares of new greenhouses in 10 different provinces across the country in the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21), an official with the ministry announced on Monday.

Iran’s deputy transport and urban development minister announced that planning has been made and preparations have been done to start constructing 1.3 million affordable housing units across the country.