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Over 5,000 Housing Units Ready for Applicants: Minister

reporter 1222 — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 05:28:30 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – More than 5,000 national housing units are ready to be handed over to people in the coming weeks, said the Iranian minister of roads and urban development.

In an address to a ceremony on Wednesday, Mohammad Eslami added that the inauguration ceremony of the residential units will be held in late October after handing them over to applicants, IRNA reported.

At present, 40,000 housing units, constructed as part of the Mehr housing scheme – a project initiated in former Iranian administrations to provide people with cheap housing – are being given to the applicants, he said.

Speaking at the ceremony, the head of the Housing Foundation of the Islamic Revolution, Alireza Tabesh, said his foundation has constructed over 1.23 million housing units in small cities and villages since 2012.

He added that the houses were constructed under the Mehr scheme.

Tabesh gave assurance that the foundation will complete construction of 250,000 semi-finished housing units by March 2021, adding that it plans to soon begin building 310,000 houses in rural areas.

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Ardebil-Mianeh Railway Gets Azerbaijan Connected to Persian Gulf

reporter 1222 — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:37:50 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami said that the Republic of Azerbaijan will gain access to the Persian Gulf region via the Ardebil-Mianeh railway.

“The Ardebil governorate has allocated a special budget for the continuation of construction of a railway from Ardebil to the border city of Parsabad so that the railway of the Republic of Azerbaijan will be connected to the railway network of Iran and the Persian Gulf in the near future,” Eslami said, according to Fars News Agency.

“Railway laying of Ardebil-Mianeh began in 2019, with a length of 174 km while its executive operations are underway in 12 sections in a timely manner,” he added.

In late July, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev reviewed bilateral relations, stressing the need for the implementation of the Rasht-Astara railway.

Rouhani said, “Fortunately, with the efforts of the officials of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, we are witnessing good, friendly, and developing relations between the two countries in recent years.”

The president also stated that the officials of the two countries can hold consultations via videoconference during the coronavirus era, in which face-to-face meetings and travel is difficult.

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Urban development of Mashhad; Iran-Italy talks

reporter 1222 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 07:03:14 +0000

IRAN (Iran News) – Italian Ambassador to Iran Giuseppe Perrone met and held talks with the mayor of Mashhad, Mohammad Reza Kalaei, on Wednesday, about Mashhad urban development.

During the meeting, the Italian envoy expressed his country’s readiness to join the urban development projects in the northeastern Iranian city. Iran-Italy talks went on about urban infrastructure.

Perrone also proposed cooperation in the construction of Mashad Airport City, hoping that they will be able to play a big role in the project despite the US sanctions.

Noting that Mashad is a cultural, religious and economic hub, the official underlined the need for promoting collaboration between the two countries.

Kalaei, for his part, slammed the US sanctions, saying that municipalities, as non-governmental institutes, can play major roles in diplomacy.

He expressed gratitude to the Italian envoy for his offer, saying Mashhad is a suitable venue for investment.

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Iran aims to increase transit share in East-West route

reporter 1222 — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:50:51 +0000

Expounding on the agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) concluded in different rail, road, sea and air sectors during the first Caspian Economic Forum in Turkmenistan he said, “given the transport capacity of 30 million tons of cargo between Far East, India, Russia and Europe – which is expandable to 100 million tons – Iran will try to increase its share of transporting cargo between East and West especially via rail-sea combined transportation.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Roads minister shed light on the three main topics in a joint meeting of five members of Caspian Sea littoral states and added, that in this quintuple meeting, transport and economy ministers of participating countries exchanged their views on the relevant issues.

Expansion of trade exchanges and economic cooperation were put atop agenda of the meeting, Eslami highlighted.

Eslami assessed talks held in the field of maritime transport ‘positive and constructive’ and added. “with the coordination made in this regard, it was agreed that tourist passenger ships will be launched between ports of the Caspian Sea.”

He then pointed to the talks held in the field of road transport and added, “electronic issuance of waybill was exchanged between participating countries including Islamic Republic of Iran, Republic of Azerbaijan and Russia.”

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Shalamcheh-Basra railway project to be implemented in Autumn

reporter 1222 — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:11:00 +0000

Khademi, who is also the head of Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructures Company, said that after signing a cooperation agreement between Iran and Iraq, the contractor and investor of the 32-kilometer Shalamcheh-Basra railroad were designated.

“We are ready to implement the project in Iraq, expecting the Iraqi government to allocate the intended land of the project to us,” he added.

In early June Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami had named holding talks with Iraqi side on selecting a contractor for Shalamcheh-Basra railway among his ministry’s top priorities during the current Iranian year (ending on March 20, 2020).

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Joint logistics companies key to boost North-South Corridor’s capacity

reporter 1222 — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:30:53 +0000

Addressing the opening session of the seventh Coordinating Council meeting for INSTC in Tehran on Monday, Eslami urged the need to improve the Corridor’s infrastructures saying, “formation of joint transportation and logistics companies among the member states will definitely help increase INSTC’s transportation capacity.”

The official expressed hope that the member states, as well as the countries situated along the strategic Corridor’s routes, would gear up their political will to remove the hurdles in developing the mega project.

This could help bring economic prosperity to the regional governments and nations, he added.

Eslami further noted that Iran, for its part, is making every effort to accelerate the development of the projects related to the transportation network’s capacity.

According to him, the strategic “Qazvin-Rasht” railway, which will be inaugurated this Wednesday, will reduce a significant share of cargo transportation costs between Asia and Europe.

The 164-kilometer-long stretch was a missing link in INSTC, which will connect Iran with Russia’s Baltic ports and give Russia rail connectivity to both the Persian Gulf and the Indian rail network.

The minister added that concurrent with the inauguration of the Qazvin-Rasht railway, the construction of the Rasht-Astara railroad will commence, opening new opportunities for the entire Eurasian region.

He added that the construction of Chabahar-Zahedan railway is currently underway, which will connect the country’s northern and southern ports and borders upon the completion.

Eslami further said plans are high on the agenda to link the country’s eastern and western points so as to multiply the corridor’s capacity.

INSTC is a major transit route designed to facilitate the transportation of goods from Mumbai in India to Helsinki in Finland, using Iranian ports and railroads, which the Islamic Republic plans to connect to those of Azerbaijan and Russia.

Once completed, goods could be transported from Mumbai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and further to Baku. They could then pass across the Russian border into Astrakhan before proceeding to Moscow and St. Petersburg, and then on to Europe.

INSTC would substantially cut the travel time for everything from Asian consumer goods to Central Eurasia’s natural resources to advanced European exports.

The multimodal route is estimated to reduce the time and cost of transportation of goods between India and Europe from 40 to 15 days.

The corridor is said to have the potential of delivering up to 10 million tons of India-Europe trade via its transportation network.

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1st Intl. Conf. on Development of Chabahar Port kicks off

reporter 1222 — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:30:11 +0000

The First International Conference on the Development of Chabahar Port kicked off in Chabahar Port on Tuesday morning.

The event was attended by Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami, President’s Adviser and Secretary of Supreme Council of Free Zones Morteza Bank and a number of authorities of the regional countries including Indian and Afghan deputy ministries of transport.

The conference also was attended by 115 officials from 30 countries with the aim of identifying investment capacities in Chabahar Port.

It should be noted that the first phase of the development of Shahid Beheshti Port of Chabahar was put into operation last year (ended March 20, 2018) in the presence of Iranian President Rouhani.

With the inauguration of this giant project, the port’s transport capacity increased from 3.5 to 8.5 million tons.

In this regard, 13 modern port facilities including eight grain vaccums and five gantry cranes (cranes to carry containers from vessels to the coast) were put into operation yesterday in the presence of Minister of Roads and Urban Development Eslami.

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