Iran’s ports in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman can become one of the most important trading platforms for the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with other countries, said First Vice President Mohammadreza Aref. Addressing the Eurasian Economic Forum in Yerevan on Tuesday, October 1st, he stated that Iran is ready to provide special facilities […]
Category: Infrastructure
2024
Kheirollah Khademi, a deputy transport minister, said on Saturday that a bulk of the new railways being built across Iran is located along the north-south and east-west transport corridors that are aimed at increasing international cargo transit via the country. Khademi said the two main rail transport corridors in Iran are estimated to be 9,100 […]
Ulviyya Shahin | AzerNews – In a significant development for regional energy markets, Azerbaijan and Turkiye are poised to formalize an “Operation Agreement” between the Nakhchivan State Energy Service and the Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIASH). This upcoming agreement, reported by Azernews via the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan, aims to streamline and […]
The Rasht – Caspian Sea Railway in Gilan province, Iran, was inaugurated on Thursday (June 20) morning in the presence of Iranian and Russian officials, led by the interim President of Iran, Mohammad Mokhber, and the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Igor Levitin, along with Igor Babushkin, the governor of Astrakhan province. The […]
On June 6, 2024, an intergovernmental agreement was signed in Beijing on the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project, part of the Belt and Road Initiative. On this occasion, a video link was also made between the presidents of the three states. The route starts from Kashgar | 喀什市, a city and major transport hub located in […]
The European Union has announced that it wants to invest 10 billion euros in the development of the Middle Corridor, also known as the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor. This corridor is to connect the states of Central Asia with the European peninsula via the Caspian Sea and the South Caucasus region (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia). The information […]
The Kuwaiti government was briefed on Tuesday, May 28, by the Minister of Public Works and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs, Noura Al-Mashaan, about the rail link project between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Mashaan presented the project during the weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace, […]
Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Mehrdad Bazrpash, inaugurated the Yazd-Eghlid railway on Sunday, May 26, in the central province of Yazd. The Yazd-Eqlid railway, a connecting route along the North East-South West and South East-South West rail corridors in Iran, is 270 km long and has 12 stations, Tasnim reported. Some 245 km […]
