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  • Iran to Expand Shipping Lines to West and Southwest Africa 17 Mar 2025

    Iran to Expand Shipping Lines to West and Southwest Africa

    TEHRAN - Iran is set to bolster its maritime trade links with West and Southwest Africa, following a decision by the Africa Committee chaired by the First Vice President, according to Mohammadreza Safari, Acting Director General for Africa at Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO). This move aims to enhance Iran’s economic footprint on the continent, building on existing shipping routes and trade relationships.

Persian Gulf Star Refinery Euro-5 diesel output reaches 20ml/d 24 Oct 2019

Persian Gulf Star Refinery Euro-5 diesel output reaches 20ml/d

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The CEO of the Bandar Abbas Gas Condensate Refinery (also called the Persian Gulf Star Refinery-PGSR) said the facility currently supplies an average of 17 to 20 million liters per day of Euro-5 diesel fuel. Mohammad Ali Dadvar said the plant is now processing 450,000 barrels of gas condensate, adding the […]

Urban development of Mashhad; Iran-Italy talks 24 Oct 2019

Urban development of Mashhad; Iran-Italy talks

IRAN (Iran News) – Italian Ambassador to Iran Giuseppe Perrone met and held talks with the mayor of Mashhad, Mohammad Reza Kalaei, on Wednesday, about Mashhad urban development. During the meeting, the Italian envoy expressed his country’s readiness to join the urban development projects in the northeastern Iranian city. Iran-Italy talks went on about urban […]

10,000 taxis to be added to Iran public transport fleet 24 Oct 2019

10,000 taxis to be added to Iran public transport fleet

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A total of 10,000 new taxis will be added to the Iran public transport fleet by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 2020), Mohsen Pourseyyed Aqaei, deputy mayor of Tehran for traffic and transport affairs, has announced. A scheme on the renovation of clunker taxis started in the […]

Four types of vehicles to go out of production by yearend 23 Oct 2019

Four types of vehicles to go out of production by yearend

Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Reza Rahmani said that production line of four types of vehicles will be stopped by the end of the current year (started March 20, 2019).

Maritime guards seize of smuggled fuel in South Iran 23 Oct 2019

Maritime guards seize of smuggled fuel in South Iran

According to Police Commander of Kish Island, maritime guards have seized three fishing vessels and discovered 44,000 liters of smuggled fuel near two islands in the Persian Gulf.

Gold prices driving a rush to one of metal’s final frontiers 23 Oct 2019

Gold prices driving a rush to one of metal’s final frontiers

Step aside Canada, Australia and South Africa: West Africa is fast becoming the hottest ticket in gold mining. Producers and prospectors are pouring money into the region as gold prices rally and the industry at the southern tip of the continent keeps shrinking, Iran News quotes what Bloomberg wrote. While gold miners face a dearth […]

Iranian goods export market lost as quality fluctuates 22 Oct 2019

Iranian goods export market lost as quality fluctuates

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The Director General of Import, Export Goods Quality Evaluation Office of the Institute of Standards and Industrial Research of Iran (ISIRI) Taghi Taghipour said that fluctuation of quality of some products manufactured in the country can threaten export of these products at target markets. Fluctuation in quality of some Iranian products […]

Rouhani urges collecting income tax, no discrimination 22 Oct 2019

Rouhani urges collecting income tax, no discrimination

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Stating that collecting tax must be done with transparency, President Rouhani said, “In a transparent process, people must know what portions of their taxes are being spent on services and the country’s development.” Speaking on Tuesday at the meeting of reviewing tax policies, President Hassan Rouhani said, “Promoting the culture of […]

NIMA supplies over €20b for importing goods, services 22 Oct 2019

NIMA supplies over €20b for importing goods, services

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s domestic Forex Management Integrated System, locally known as NIMA supplies over €20 billion for imports of goods and services since it was launched in April 2018 up to October 20, 2019. NIMA, which seeks to boost transparency, create competitiveness among exchange shops and a secure environment for traders, is a […]

Sistan and Baluchestan H1 exports register 50% hike 22 Oct 2019

Sistan and Baluchestan H1 exports register 50% hike

TEHRAN (Iran News) – More than 686,000 tons of commodities worth $464 million were exported from the Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran. This amount is said to be a 50% increase in Sistan and Baluchestan H1 exports during the first six months of the current fiscal year (March 21- Sep. 22), a senior official […]