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Japan Loads 1st Cargo of Iran Crude since US Sanctions Waiver 21 Jan 2019

Japan Loads 1st Cargo of Iran Crude since US Sanctions Waiver

Fuji Oil has loaded Iranian crude oil, the first cargo being lifted by the Japanese refiner since the country won a 180-day waiver from the US to import oil from Iran, a report said. The resumption of oil imports comes after Tokyo was granted a waiver from US sanctions that went into effect in November, […]

Foreign firms voice readiness for ‘reinsurance’ in Iran’s insurance industry 20 Jan 2019

Foreign firms voice readiness for ‘reinsurance’ in Iran’s insurance industry

Head of Central Insurance of Iran (CII) Gholamreza Soleymani said that foreign companies have expressed their readiness to do reinsurance operations in Iran’s insurance industry. He made the above remark at 5th Insurance and Risk Management Conference this morning Jan. 20 and said, “relationship of insurance companies with the risk management is of the important […]

Gas produced in South Pars platform 13B injected to offshore refinery 20 Jan 2019

Gas produced in South Pars platform 13B injected to offshore refinery

Gas produced in platform 13B of Iran’s South Par gas field was injected to the offshore refinery of phase 13 of the gas field development, Payam Motamed, the operator of this phase, announced. He said the gas received from this platform was injected to the fourth train of sweetening refinery of phase 13 on Thursday, […]

Some 576 industrial, mineral projects to go on stream 19 Jan 2019

Some 576 industrial, mineral projects to go on stream

Head of Administrative Development and Renovation Center of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade Jahanbakhsh Sanjabi Shirazi said that 576 industrial, mineral and trade projects, costing totally 686,000 billion rials, would be put into operation concurrent with the 40th glorious victory anniversary of the Islamic Revolution (Ten-Day Dawn ceremonies). Of total projects, 19 of […]

3000 new small-scale solar plants to be constructed in rural areas 19 Jan 2019

3000 new small-scale solar plants to be constructed in rural areas

 Deputy Energy Minister Mohammad Sadeghzadeh said 3000 new small-scale solar plants are going to be constructed in the country’s underprivileged and rural areas by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2019), IRNA reported. Sadeghzadeh, who is the Head of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (SATBA) noted that 2000 small-scale solar […]

Over 27m tons of iron ore produced in 9 months 19 Jan 2019

Over 27m tons of iron ore produced in 9 months

 Iran produced 27,031 million tons of iron ore during the nine-month period ended on December 21, 2018, IRNA reported citing the data released by Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO). IMIDRO data also put the amount of raw iron ore extracted during the mentioned time at 48,759 million tons. Furthermore, the […]

NIMA supplies €6.2b for imports of goods, services 19 Jan 2019

NIMA supplies €6.2b for imports of goods, services

Iran’s domestic Forex Management Integrated System (locally known as NIMA) has supplied €6.276 billion of foreign currency for imports of goods and services since early August, IRIB reported on Thursday. The system has earned €7.141 billion of foreign currency from exports during the mentioned time span. NIMA, which seeks to boost transparency, create competitiveness among […]

Rajaei Port container throughput reaches 1.4 m in 9 months 16 Jan 2019

Rajaei Port container throughput reaches 1.4 m in 9 months

Over 1.4 million container goods were loaded and unloaded in Shahid Rajaei Port, southern Hormozgan Province, during the past nine months of the current fiscal year (March-December 2018), a senior official at Ports and Maritime Organization said. Director General of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organization, Allah-Morad Afifipour, put the container throughput in Shahid Rajaei at […]

Iran calls on Europe to cut tariffs for Iranian goods down to zero 16 Jan 2019

Iran calls on Europe to cut tariffs for Iranian goods down to zero

 An official at the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran has called on Europe to cut down to zero the tariffs imposed on the import of Iranian goods, saying the move would send a message that Europe is serious about expanding trade with Iran. The acting head of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPO) Mohammadreza […]

Role of ‘rial’ to be strengthened in global exchanges 16 Jan 2019

Role of ‘rial’ to be strengthened in global exchanges

Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Reza Rahmani said that role of Iranian ‘rial’ would be strengthened in financial exchanges with many countries in the world and this issue is of the main macro policies of the government that should be taken into serious consideration. He made the above remark late on Monday among industrialists […]