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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.

Azerbaijan’s 1st freight train arrives in Iran via Astara rail route 08 Feb 2018

Azerbaijan’s 1st freight train arrives in Iran via Astara rail route

The first cargo train of Azerbaijan Republic arrived in Iran via Astara rail line as pilot on Thursday afternoon. Given the above issue, Astara-Astara International Railways was put into operation as pilot in the presence of Ali Khodaei Director General of Islamic Republic of Iran Railways in northwestern region, Karimov Deputy Transport Affairs and Abbasov […]

4 new cars co-produced with foreign companies to enter Iran’s market 08 Feb 2018

4 new cars co-produced with foreign companies to enter Iran’s market

TEHRAN – In collaboration with foreign companies, Iranian carmakers are going to introduce four new passenger car models into the country’s market during the next Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2018- March 20, 2019), according to an industry official. Head of the Industrial Development and Revolution Organization (IDRO) Mansour Moazami, said since the implementation of […]

ICCIMA, KRG Producers’ Union to broaden coop. 07 Feb 2018

ICCIMA, KRG Producers’ Union to broaden coop.

Yassin Mahmoud Rashid, the spokesperson for the Kurdistan Investors’ Union announced that the Union will hold an expert-level meeting with Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) to broaden bilateral economic relationship. Yassin Mahoud Rashid told Iranian news outlet IRNA in Erbil on Wednesday that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran had […]

Upsurge in Iranian travelers visiting Azerbaijan 07 Feb 2018

Upsurge in Iranian travelers visiting Azerbaijan

TEHRAN – The number of Iranian travelers to Azerbaijan has risen by nearly 64 percent in the first 10 months of 2017 compared to the same period last year. Around 320,000 Iranians visited the neighboring country in January-October this year in comparison with 204,000 the year before, IRNA reported on Tuesday. The Republic of Azerbaijan […]

Norwegian companies eager for co-op with Iranian counterparts: envoy 07 Feb 2018

Norwegian companies eager for co-op with Iranian counterparts: envoy

TEHRAN – Norway’s ambassador in Tehran said renowned Norwegian companies active in different areas are interested in cooperation with Iranian counterparts. According to the portal of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), Lars Nordrum made the remarks in a meeting with ICCIMA’s Head Gholam-Hossein Shafeie in Tehran on Tuesday, ICCIMA portal reported. […]

14,300km of roads under construction in Iran 07 Feb 2018

14,300km of roads under construction in Iran

TEHRAN- Some 14,300 kilometers of roads are under construction in Iran, the managing director of Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructures Company announced in a news conference on Tuesday. As IRNA quoted Kheirollah Khademi, some of these roads are to be completed in near future. “More than 70,000 workers are constructing these roads,” he said. […]

Iran to become gas technical–engineering services exporter 06 Feb 2018

Iran to become gas technical–engineering services exporter

Iran is planning to become an exporter of technical and engineering services in gas sector, National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Managing Director Hamidreza Araghi announced. “We have already negotiated with some neighboring countries to export such services to them”, Hamidreza Araghi, the Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), said in a press […]

Hengam gas field’s processing facilities to go on stream soon 06 Feb 2018

Hengam gas field’s processing facilities to go on stream soon

TEHRAN – Gas processing facilities of Hengam gas field (in the Persian Gulf) is going to be officially inaugurated in near future, Shana reported on Monday quoting an official with the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC). According to IOOC’s Managing Director Hamid Bovard, all the field’s process, infrastructure and utility unites, including demineralization, sweetening, pipelines, […]

Iran to build 72-seat aircraft in 3 years 06 Feb 2018

Iran to build 72-seat aircraft in 3 years

 Iranian knowledge-based companies are working on manufacturing a 72-seat aircraft in three years, head of Iran’s Aviation Industries Organization said Tuesday. The managing director of Iran Aviation Industries Organization, Manouchehr Manteghi, told Mehr News correspondent on Tuesday that researchers from knowledge-based companies are working on a project to complete the manufacture of a 72-seat aircraft in […]

Iran-Armenia trade up 10.3% in 2017 06 Feb 2018

Iran-Armenia trade up 10.3% in 2017

TEHRAN – The value of trade between Iran and Armenia reached $263.5 million in 2017, a 10.3 percent increase compared to the previous year. According to Hamaiak Avadisyanes, Iran’s commercial attaché in Yerevan, the country exported $179.3 million worth of goods to Armenia in 2017 and trade balance between the two countries has been $95 […]