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Iran Transited 773,000 Tons of Cargo via Rail in 5-Month Period

mahla — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:57:16 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) The transit of goods from the country via the rail sector in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 to August 22, 2024) registered a 47 percent growth compared to last year’s corresponding period, it said.

According to the ministry’s website, 526,000 tons of goods had been transited from the country via rail in the first five months of the previous Iranian calendar year (March 21 to August 22, 2023).

The report added that more than 1 million tons of goods were transited from the country via rail sector in 2021.

Sarakhs and Astara border crossings accounted for the largest volume of the transited goods with 536,000 tons and 129,000 tons of goods transited from Sarakhs and Astara border crossing in this period, respectively.

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Iran Transits 16 Million Tons of Goods via Road, Rail in One Year: Deputy Roads Minister

mahla — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:47:21 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) Deputy Head of Iran’s Roads and Urban Development for Transportation Affairs Kamal Hadianfar said that 14.750 million tons of goods were transited from the country via road while 1.590 million tons of goods were transited through rail.

Speaking in the first session of the specialized commission of National Transit and Logistics Headquarters, he described the transit of 16 million tons of goods from the country via rail and road as a new record.

Hadianfar put the length of the rail network in Iran at 15,000 km and said effective steps should be taken in line with expanding the rail transit in the country.

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Over 500 Wagons Added to Iran Rail Fleet

mahla — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:14:21 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) –In a ceremony attended by the CEO of the Railway of the Islamic Republic of Iran (RAI) Miad Salehi, 516 brand-new freight wagons, 12 brand-new locomotives, 5 overhauled locomotives, 8 brand-new passenger wagons, and 17 freight wagons joined the railway fleet.

He went on to say that these wagons and locomotives have been fully manufactured by domestic engineers, ISNA reported.

According to another RAI official, 93 locomotives in the production and renovation fields have entered the nationwide rail network since August 2021 when the administration of the late President Ebrahim Raisi assumed office.

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Afghanistan’s 2nd Rail Cargo to Depart for Turkey via Iran

mahla — Fri, 03 May 2024 20:47:19 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) –Head of Afghanistan’s railway administration Bakht Rahman Sharafat posted a message on X about the second Afghan rail cargo being prepared to go to Turkey via Iran.

He said Afghanistan is committed to the principles of connected world and fast transportation facilities.

“We not only transport goods, but also connect the hearts,” he added.

Afghanistan’s railway authority has not provided details of the shipment.

Afghanistan’s first export cargo, including 1,100 metric tons of mineral ore, was exported by train from the Roznak station in Herat to Turkey through Iran on April 23.

The shipment was destined for the coastal city of Mersin in southern Turkey.

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Iran, Turkey target 1m tons of rail freight transport in 2024

mahla — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 22:09:14 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) –Iran and Turkey have agreed to increase rail freight transportation between the two countries to one million tons in 2024, Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Miad Salehi said.

According to Salehi, the agreement was reached between the two sides during a meeting with the Director General of the State Railways of the Republic of Turkey (TCDD) Hasan Pezük, the portal of Iran’s Transport Ministry reported on Saturday.

“In a meeting we had with the head of the Turkish Railways good understandings were reached. Among other things, we agreed to exchange 200 wagons every 24 hours from the Razi border, and with this goal, we can achieve the exchange of one million tons of rail freight between the two countries in the next year,” Salehi said.

In this regard, it was decided that the Turkish Railways should quickly restore the infrastructure of its rail network and fix the damage caused by the earthquake as well as the problems caused by the decrease in the water level of Lake Van, the official explained.

He further stated that the agreements reached are a big step to increase transit cargo through Turkey to Europe and added: “Since Turkey is considered to be the gateway of Asia to Europe, based on the previous understandings with the countries of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan and China, we were able to transport cargo from these countries to Europe via China-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Turkey, and this is a turning point for increasing international cargo transit.”

Iran is one of the countries with a special status in trade and transit relations due to its strategic location and special geography, as the country is the passage of several important international corridors.

Considering its geographical location, Iran can play a significant role in the transit of goods in the region and benefit a lot from its status in this due.

Paying attention to upstream documents, especially the country’s development plans, and the government’s decision to develop transit, paying special attention to infrastructure development, reducing transit time, making it cheaper to cross Iran and making more advantages over competitors, due to the short path for customers, can lead to facilitating the development of transit so that the country can reach the desired growth in this due.

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Tehran, Bishkek Call for Strengthening Rail Route for Transit of Goods

mahla — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 05:39:47 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Mr. Gholam-Hossein Shafei met visiting Head of Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Kyrgyzstan Mr. Danil Ibrayev and during the meeting both sides called for reinforcing the rail route of south to north from Bandar Abbas to Sarakhs and to the EAEU states.

In the meeting, Mr. Ibrayev raised to proposals in line with developing the level of ties between Iran and Kyrgyzstan: monthly specialized talks and meeting in the fields that both countries have good capacities for bilateral ties and also the support of the ICCIMA from reinforcing the rail route from Bandar Abbas to Sarakhs and transit of goods from India, China and the Persian Gulf states to Kyrgyzstan and other regional states and vice versa.

The both sides in the meeting also raised and emphasized defining an integrated mechanism in the field of trade between Iran and Kyrgyzstan.

Ibrayev added that specialized videoconferences between economic activists of the two countries in those fields that there are good capacities for bilateral cooperation. He went on to say that the monthly meetings will have positive effects on boosting the bilateral relations, adding that the two sides agreed to hold the first meeting in the upcoming months.

He then pointed to the restrictions for transfer of money for trade with Iran and called it a serious hurdle for boosting bilateral trade and stated that businessmen of both countries have found the ways for restoring ties and called for defining a unified mechanism accepted by the two sides.

Ibrayev went on to say that the other problem overshadowing the trade relation between Iran and Kyrgyzstan is in the field of transportation, adding that during Kyrgyz President’s visit to Turkmenistan some problems for the transit of goods have been resolved and called for reinforcing railway route of Bandar Abbas to Sarakhs in Iran.

He said by improving this rail route, the level of transit of goods from the south to the northern countries like Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and other countries will increase. He added that by the assistance of this route, goods from China, India, Persian Gulf states and Iran can be transported to the EAEU states.

He also called for signing the agreements in the field of free and preferential trade between the two states and asked Mr. Shafei to express his opinion regarding the types of goods and tariffs.

Meanwhile in the meeting and regarding the problems in the banking field, Shafei raised the idea of using bartering trade and announced the beginning of the process for launching the Iran-Kyrgyzstan Commercial Council in the ICCIMA, and said the need for launching this joint council was badly felt and in this line some actions have been taken and expressed hope they would bear fruit very soon.

He also pointed to the trade and production capacities in Kyrgyzstan and said strong and stable laws in Kyrgyzstan in line with strengthening the private sector, support of foreign investment and moving towards free elections are of the main factors for alluring investment.

Shafei also noted that a large number of Iranians have invested in the major free zones of Kyrgyzstan and called for easing the trend for joint cooperation between the two states. He added that both countries can have good cooperation in the agro products, tourism and energy sector.

He also pointed to the Iran-Kyrgyzstan passenger plane crash and the halt in the activities of the airlines and said the halt has had negative impact on the bilateral trade and expressed hope the direct flight between the two states would restore soon as it will boost the bilateral trade relation.

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

reporter 1222 — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:00:28 +0000

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 Deputy Operation Affairs of Railway Company of Republic of Azerbaijan, Younes Ranjkesh Governor of Astara, Vali Dadashi representative of people of Astara in the Iranian Parliament, Colonel Nozar Moradi Commander of Astara Border, Rasoul Omidi Director General of Astara Customs Office, etc.

A number of six 55-ton wagons of a freight train, heading to Iran from Russia’s St. Petersburg via rail route of Republic of Azerbaijan, were launched as pilot in line with materializing objectives of North-South corridor.

In the course of pilot entrance of freight train to Iran’s Astara Border, the Director General of IRI Railways Company in northwestern region said, “completion of North-South transport corridor is of the main priorities of bilateral economic cooperation between Iran and Republic of Azerbaijan.”

He pointed to Astara-Astara Rail Route as the outset of establishing new and joint chapter in bilateral cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan and said, “the rail route will strengthen economic ties between the two countries which intensifies mutual cooperation considerably.”

Turing to the investment made by Azeri side in this giant railway projects and said, “petroleum products, minerals, grains, MDF (medium-density fiberboard) will be transported via this rail route.”

As home to more than 191,000 people, Astara border city is located in northwest Gilan Province in the vicinity of Republic of Azerbaijan, he concluded.

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Hyundai inks €720m rail deal in Iran

reporter 1222 — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:45:51 +0000

TEHRAN – South Korean Hyundai Rotem signed a deal worth 720 million euro in Tehran on Saturday on building 450 railbuses in Iran.

The deal was signed between the South Korean company, the Iranian Rail Industries Development Company, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, known as RAI.

The duration of the contract will be 78 months and the first railbus will be operational 18 months after the deal takes effect, Tasnim news agency quoted the RAI managing director Saeed Mohammadzadeh as saying.

As per the agreement, one third of the railbuses will be constructed in Iran and the rest by the Korean side.

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