EghtesadOnline: Iran and Russia have reached an agreement for the construction of the Rasht-Astara railroad project.
EghtesadOnline: A total of 428 domestically-made/overhauled train wagons worth 16.18 trillion rials ($40 million) joined Iran’s rail fleet on Dec. 20, during a ceremony attended by Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash and the CEO of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Miad Salehi.
EghtesadOnline: Yazd-Eqlid railroad, a missing link from a triangle connecting three major tourist attractions of Isfahan, Yazd and Fars provinces, recently came on stream.
EghtesadOnline: A clinker transportation rail line was recently launched in the southern Khuzestan Province’s Shalamcheh border checkpoint.
EghtesadOnline: The railroad project connecting the central province of Yazd to Fars Province in southwest Iran will come on stream by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2021), a deputy minister of roads and urban development said.
EghtesadOnline: A total of 14 trillion rials ($79 million) worth of investments have been made in the 175-kilometer-long Ardabil-Mianeh railroad project so far, according to the head of the Plan and Budget Organization.
EghtesadOnline: The Ministry of Roads and Urban Development plans to lay 1,660 kilometers of new railroads across the country by the end of the current fiscal year (March 20, 2021).
EghtesadOnline: The three sections of the railroad project connecting the southeastern port city of Chabahar to the eastern city of Zahedan near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan will be inaugurated by June 21, 2021.
EghtesadOnline: A total of 120,068 tons of goods worth $36.73 million were exported via Astara railroad in the northern Gilan Province last year.
EghtesadOnline: More than 800,000 tons of commodities have been exported to Central Asian countries via railroad from Sarakhs Border Terminal in the northeastern Khorasan Razavi Province since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), registering a 58% surge compared with the corresponding period of last year.