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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.

Liquidity at $325b in a month 14 Mar 2018

Liquidity at $325b in a month

TEHRAN- Iran’s liquidity stood at 14.63 quadrillion rials (about $325 billion) during the 10th Iranian calendar month of Dey (December 21, 2017- January 19, 2018), according to a report released by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). The CBI announced that the liquidity figure shows 22.3 percent growth in comparison with the same period in […]

Turkish GAMA Holding inks petrochemical investment MoU with Iran 14 Mar 2018

Turkish GAMA Holding inks petrochemical investment MoU with Iran

 A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in the field of petrochemical investment between Khuzestan province’s Governor-Generalship and Turkish GAMA Company in Izeh sub-province on Monday. Representative and senior advisor of Turkish GAMA Holding Company Dondarf Koncal in the signing ceremony expressed his willingness to invest in Khuzestan province, saying that the company started its […]

Austria ready to build more solar plants in Kerman 14 Mar 2018

Austria ready to build more solar plants in Kerman

 Austrian ambassador to Iran voiced his country’s readiness to build more solar power plants in Kerman province, southeast of Iran. Austrian Ambassador to Iran Stefan Scholz made the comment on Tuesday during his tour of the first phase of a 1.2 MW solar power plant construction project currently underway in Rafsanjan’s industrial zone, Kerman province. […]

Iran has good ties with Iraqi ethnic groups: diplomat 14 Mar 2018

Iran has good ties with Iraqi ethnic groups: diplomat

TEHRAN – Iraj Masjedi, the Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, said on Monday that Iran has good relations with all the ethnic groups in Iraq. During a meeting with a number of Feyli Kurds, he said that Iran has good relations with all the Iraqi ethnic groups, especially the Kurds. For his part, Assadollah Feyli, head […]

Development plans to see 79% budget rise next year 14 Mar 2018

Development plans to see 79% budget rise next year

TEHRAN- The national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year, starting March 21, has envisaged 79 percent more budget for development projects, the government spokesman announced. In a press conference on Tuesday, Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said the coming year’s budget for development projects is 334.54 trillion rials (about $7.43 billion), while the figure was 186.43 […]

Iran, Azerbaijan to finalize oil agreement by next month: oil min. 13 Mar 2018

Iran, Azerbaijan to finalize oil agreement by next month: oil min.

 Iranian oil minister described the oil negotiations between Iran and Azerbaijan as positive and voiced hope to see the talks concluded with President Rouhani’s visit to Baku in the first days of the new year (of Iranian calendar). “The Presidents of the two countries of Iran and Azerbaijan are significantly contributing to the bilateral relations […]

Finland, Denmark, Sweden Sign Cooperation Document with Iran’s IDRO 13 Mar 2018

Finland, Denmark, Sweden Sign Cooperation Document with Iran’s IDRO

The ambassador of Finland to Tehran said Helsinki, Copenhagen and Stockholm have signed an agreement with Iran’s IDRO Group to improve cooperation in various fields, including oil and renewable energies. “Finland, Denmark and Sweden signed an MoU with IDRO of Iran to promote collaboration in in the fields of oil & gas, high-tech, transportation, renewable […]

Iran’s waste-to-energy capacity reaches 11 MW 12 Mar 2018

Iran’s waste-to-energy capacity reaches 11 MW

TEHRAN – The capacity of waste-to-energy plants across Iran has reached 11 megawatts, the country’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization, known as Satba, announced on Sunday. A waste-to-energy plant is a waste management facility that combusts wastes to produce electricity. This type of power plant is also called a trash-to-energy, municipal waste incineration, energy […]

IPC’s data must be in compliance with national interests 11 Mar 2018

IPC’s data must be in compliance with national interests

The need to provide comprehensive, timely, precise and accurate information on petroleum contracts, salaries and wages of chief executives of oil industry was emphasized in an expert-level meeting held at the venue of the Ministry of Oil. This get-together meeting was held in the presence of members of Secretariat of Commission and representatives of National […]

Liquidity rate hits by 16.7% growth in 10 months 11 Mar 2018

Liquidity rate hits by 16.7% growth in 10 months

Liquidity in the country hit 1,463 thousand billion tomans in the Iranian month of Dey (Jan. 22), showing a considerable 16.7 percent hike as compared to the same period of last year. According to a report released by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), share of money and quasi money hit 180,000 and 1282.9 thousand […]