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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.

Petrochemical exports at over $9.6b in 10 months 15 Feb 2018

Petrochemical exports at over $9.6b in 10 months

TEHRAN- Iran exported more than 18.588 million tons of petrochemical products worth $9.69 billion in the ten-month period ended on January 20, 2018, IRNA reported on Wednesday. The country’s petrochemical output stood at 44.202 million tons during the mentioned time span. Production units in Assalouyeh and Mahshahr petrochemical zones, both in southwest of Iran, accounted […]

Iran ready to export gas to all neighboring countries 14 Feb 2018

Iran ready to export gas to all neighboring countries

Mr. Montazer Torbati, the MD of IGEDC, told the media that Iran has completed its domestic network of gas pipelines and is ready to export gas to all neighboring countries on their demand. “Iran gas exporting to Baghdad from Naftshahr is consistently continuing and as announced earlier Iran is ready to export gas to Basra […]

Iran approves $9.7bn FDI during post-sanctions 14 Feb 2018

Iran approves $9.7bn FDI during post-sanctions

 Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Ali Shariatmadari approved that industry, mine and trade fields have exclusively attracted more than $9.7 billion foreign direct investment (FDI) during post-sanctions era. “If we are willing to enter the global market of technical and engineering services, we have to build brands while the hardships endured by Iranian […]

Renault’s investment in Iran to hit €800m 14 Feb 2018

Renault’s investment in Iran to hit €800m

TEHRAN – French automaker Renault is going to expand activities in Iran, boosting its total investments in the country to €800 million, IRNA reported quoting the company’s director for MENA region. Speaking at the 5th edition of Iran’s Automotive Industry International Conference in Tehran on Tuesday, Pascal Felten noted that with the new round of […]

Containerization in need of investments 14 Feb 2018

Containerization in need of investments

TEHRAN- Iran owns 229 container ships, which contributes to 1.1 percent of the global capacity, but containerization is in dire need of attracting investments, Mohammad Rastad, head of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (IPO), stated. Making the remarks in the 25th Conference of Coordinating Marine Organizations of Iran on Tuesday, the official said: “Some 145 […]

Iran’s heavy crude price jumps 8.2% in January 14 Feb 2018

Iran’s heavy crude price jumps 8.2% in January

TEHRAN- According to OPEC’s latest monthly report published on February 12, Iran’s heavy oil price reached $65.85 in January, an increase of $4.98 or 8.2 percent from $60.87 in December. Based on the data presented, the country’s average heavy crude price stood at $51.90 in 2017. The report also put Iran’s oil production, based on […]

Purchasing Qatari rials from Iranian exporters kicks off 13 Feb 2018

Purchasing Qatari rials from Iranian exporters kicks off

Farzad Piltan an official in charge of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) revealed the outset of purchasing process of Qatari rials from Iranian exporters of goods and services and said, “with the necessary follow up made in this regard on solving problems facing exporters of goods and services to neighboring Qatar, process of transferring […]

Tehran, Islamabad to increase bilateral trade to $5 billion annually 13 Feb 2018

Tehran, Islamabad to increase bilateral trade to $5 billion annually

 Iran’s Consul General in Quetta, Pakistan says that Iran and Pakistan aim to increase bilateral trade from current volume $1.5 to $5 billion. Mohammad Rafiee Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Quetta, Pakistan made the remarks in a ceremony to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in […]

Iran after joining European power grid: energy min. 13 Feb 2018

Iran after joining European power grid: energy min.

Iranian energy minister says that Iran is after reaching European buyers through linking to neighboring grids as the national power grid has expanded and Iran is negotiating with neighboring countries. “We are after using the opportunity to connect our power grid to the electricity grid of Europe through some of our neighbors,” said Reza Ardekanian, […]

Iran, Germany to expand environmental coop. 13 Feb 2018

Iran, Germany to expand environmental coop.

During the meeting of the Head of Iran’s Environment Protection Department Isa Kalantari and German Ambassador to Tehran Michael Klor Berchtold vowed for expansion of bilateral cooperation in environmental areas. “We are facing a lot of environmental problems. Especially in the area of water, our country is faced with numerous problems and to tackle these […]