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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.

Imports from Kurdistan border up by 113% in 11 months 25 Feb 2018

Imports from Kurdistan border up by 113% in 11 months

Director general of Kurdistan province Customs Office Bakhtiar Rahmanipour revealed the 113 percent growth of goods import from borders of this province in the 11 months of the current Iranian calendar year in 1396 (to end March 20, 2018) as compared to the same period of last year. Speaking on late Saturday at 11th session […]

Iran sells light crude oil at $59.96 in a week 25 Feb 2018

Iran sells light crude oil at $59.96 in a week

TEHRAN- Iran’s light crude oil price fell $3.18 in the week ended on February 16 to settle at $59.96 per barrel, Shana reported on Saturday. The country’s light oil price was reported $66.20 on average since the beginning of 2018 until February 16. Iran’s heavy crude oil also experienced a $2.71 fall in the said […]

Inflation rate stands at 9.9%: CBI 25 Feb 2018

Inflation rate stands at 9.9%: CBI

TEHRAN- The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced that the inflation rate for the 12-month period ended on the last day of the eleventh Iranian calendar month Bahman (February 19) compared to the same period in the previous year hit 9.9 percent. It is while the Statistical Center of Iran had previously put the inflation […]

54 IDRO projects to be implemented using $14.7b of investments by 2022 25 Feb 2018

54 IDRO projects to be implemented using $14.7b of investments by 2022

TEHRAN- Iran’s Industrial Development and Renovation Organization (IDRO) plans to implement some 54 projects using 660 trillion rials (about $14.73 billion) of investments by March 20, 2022, the organization’s Head Mansour Moazzami announced on Saturday. As IRNA quoted him as saying, implementation of these projects, which are aimed at supporting production and job creation in […]

56% of goods import, export done via Hormozgan prov. 25 Feb 2018

56% of goods import, export done via Hormozgan prov.

Political, Security and Social Deputy Governor-Generalship of Hormozgan Province Behrouz Akrami here on Saturday pointed to the significant status of this province in economic and trade activities of the country and said, “according to statistics, more than 56 percent of products in the country is imported and exported through this province. As a trade and […]

3,000 semi-finished projects ready to be transferred 24 Feb 2018

3,000 semi-finished projects ready to be transferred

TEHRAN- Some 3,000 semi-finished governmental projects are ready to be offered to the private sector, an official announced. As IRNA quoted Ali Abdolalizadeh, the chairman of task force for transferring semi-finished governmental projects to the private sector, completion of these projects requires five quadrillion rials (about $111.11 billion) of finance. In addition to the named […]

Potentials of Iranian ports presented in Malaysia 24 Feb 2018

Potentials of Iranian ports presented in Malaysia

TEHRAN – Malaysia’s Port Klang hosted the first meeting between Iranian and Malaysian officials focusing on potentials of Iranian ports especially Chabahar Port in southern Iran. As reported by IRNA, held on Friday, the meeting was attended by representatives of Malaysian maritime and logistics sectors, including shipping, warehouses, packaging and consulting. As part of Iran-Malaysia’s […]

Loans to economic sector increase 8% in 10 months 22 Feb 2018

Loans to economic sector increase 8% in 10 months

TEHRAN- Iranian banks gave 6.42 quadrillion rials (about $102.3 billion) of facilities to domestic economic sector during the 10 months ending to January 20, 2018, which shows eight percent growth in comparison with the same time span in the previous year, ILNA reported on Wednesday. In the said period, Iranian banks could manage to offer […]

Total to maximize Iranian share in South Pars project 22 Feb 2018

Total to maximize Iranian share in South Pars project

TEHRAN – Total has created a comprehensive database of Iranian contractors and equipment manufacturers to maximize the use of Iranian capacities in the development of phase 11 of Iran’s South Pars gas field, Shana reported on Wednesday quoting an oil official. According to Habibollah Bitaraf, the Iranian deputy oil minister for engineering, research and technology, […]

First train of SP phases 22-24 sweetening refinery comes online 22 Feb 2018

First train of SP phases 22-24 sweetening refinery comes online

TEHRAN- The first train of sweetening refinery of phases 22, 23 and 24 of Iran’s South Pars gas field was put into operation and the phases are ready to receive sour gas, according to the operator of the phases. Farhad Izadjou further put the onshore and refinery progress of the three mentioned development phases at […]