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  • Foreign Shipping Lines May Return Following U.S. Deal 21 Apr 2025

    Foreign Shipping Lines May Return Following U.S. Deal

    TEHRAN – Former head of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization, Mohammad Rastad, has revealed that container traffic in Iranian ports dropped by half after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal. Speaking to ILNA, Rastad explained that container throughput had peaked at over 3 million TEUs during the JCPOA era, but fell to just 1.5 million TEUs following the collapse of the agreement.

Trump’s tweets driving up oil prices 06 Jul 2018

Trump’s tweets driving up oil prices

 Iran’s representative to OPEC taunted US President Donald Trump for its “despicable” tweets addressing OPEC, saying if Trump does not stop tweeting, oil prices will go even higher. Hossein Kazempour Ardebili taunted Donald Trump for his lack of knowledge about global oil markets by ordering OPEC to reduce oil prices, saying “for the past thirty years, […]

Lukoil says it expects to sign contracts with Iran in 3-4 months 05 Jul 2018

Lukoil says it expects to sign contracts with Iran in 3-4 months

The head of Lukoil, Russia’s oil-producing giant, Vagit Alekperov said he expects to sign contracts with Iran to develop the country’s oil fields in 3-4 months. These are the oil fields of Mansuri and Shanguleh, the development of which the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced a tender in the summer of 2017. Lukoil has […]

Secondary forex market starts operation 05 Jul 2018

Secondary forex market starts operation

TEHRAN- Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Valiollah Seif announced about official inauguration of secondary foreign exchange market on Wednesday, IRNA quoted him as saying on the sidelines of the cabinet meeting. The secondary market will allow exporters of non-oil commodities to sell their foreign currency earnings to importers of consumer products at […]

Iran, Austria sign 4 new agreements on Wed. 05 Jul 2018

Iran, Austria sign 4 new agreements on Wed.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Austria signed 4 cooperation documents in the presence of Iranian President Rouhani and Austrian Chancellor Kurz. In the ceremony that was held on Wednesday, during President Hassan Rouhani’s official visit to Austria, four documents were signed by senior officials of the two countries in the fields […]

Parl. passes single urgency bill on domestic financial messaging system 04 Jul 2018

Parl. passes single urgency bill on domestic financial messaging system

Iranian lawmakers passed single urgency on a bill for using domestic financial messaging system that once finalized, will require the Central Bank to ink bilateral or multilateral monetary agreements with at least 24 countries in the world. The single urgency bill was passed by 103 votes in favor, 67 votes against and seven abstentions during […]

Russia to finance €1.2b railway project in Iran 04 Jul 2018

Russia to finance €1.2b railway project in Iran

TEHRAN- The €1.2-billion project for electrification of Garmsar–Incheboron railway in Iran was officially inaugurated on Monday, IRIB reported. As reported, senior officials from Iran’s Transportation Ministry, the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (known as RAI), and JSC Russian Railways attended the inauguration ceremony which was held through video conference in Tehran. The electrification of the […]

ATR seeking new export license to deliver remaining Iranian aircraft 04 Jul 2018

ATR seeking new export license to deliver remaining Iranian aircraft

Franco-Italian passenger aircraft manufacturer, ATR, confirmed that it is seeking new export license from the US Treasury Department to allow it to deliver the final 12 ATR 72 planes already purchased by Iran. According to ainonline, ATR, Franco-Italian passenger aircraft manufacturer, confirmed that it has applied for a new export license from the US Treasury Department’s […]

Switzerland to facilitate financial transactions with Iran 04 Jul 2018

Switzerland to facilitate financial transactions with Iran

The president of the Swiss-Iranian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced Bern’s support for helping Iran’s financial transactions despite risk of US sanctions. According to Deutche Welle Radio, Simon Tiberius Fundel, said that Switzerland will take measures to facilitate Iran’s economic activities when the United States sanctions come into effect. Tiberius Fundel, who made […]

Iran’s non-oil exports to Iraq increases by 13% 03 Jul 2018

Iran’s non-oil exports to Iraq increases by 13%

 Naser Behzad, the Commercial Attaché at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, announced an increase of 13% in Iran’s non-oil exports to Iraq. Behzad said on Tuesday that the value of non-oil exports to Iraq in the first quarter of current year was also up 3 percent from the same period last year; Iran’s share of […]

Iran warns US of blocking Iran’s oil exports; ‘stop it or face the consequences’ 03 Jul 2018

Iran warns US of blocking Iran’s oil exports; ‘stop it or face the consequences’

The Iranian president has said that the US cannot go ahead with its plan of stemming Iran’s oil exports, calling on the American to go ahead with their plans if they can. “The Americans claim that they want to completely block Iran’s oil exports to zero but they don’t understand what they are saying because […]