IRNA Iranian embassy in London has protested the US' sanctions on Iranian shipping. In a letter to the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Iranian embassy in London condemned the US' move to impose unilateral sanctions against Iran shipping, Iranian ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad said in a message posted ...

June 24,The Iran Project Managing Director of Iran Container Shipping Line has announced that during the first two months of this year, Irans container transport has grown by 61% compared to the same period last year. Speaking to a reporter on Saturday, Managing Director of Iran Container Shipping Line Hamzeh Keshavarzsaid despite the fact that ...

MNA A large portion of Irans shipping fleet has regained Protection & Indemnity (P&I) insurance from Steamship Mutual. Jonathan Andrews, Director & Head of EasternUnderwriting in Steamship Mutual, said a considerable number of Iranian vessels have taken out insurance form our company and we are pleased to observe return of Iranian ...

Omani and Iranian businessmen have said that investments between the two countries will only get a boost through enhanced shipping lanes. A group of 20 officials and businessmen from the South Batinah branch of Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) recently visited the Iranian province of Isfahan. This was the third OCCI delegation to have ...

Hong Kongs crucial shipping trade is hoping Chinas overseas infrastructure plan and closer business ties with Iran will enable the city to tackle the downturn in the seaborne sector and tougher competition, officials said. The global container sector, which transports everything from bananas to iPhones, as well as the dry bulk shipping market hauling ...

The preliminary agreements mark Irans efforts to make a comeback in global shipping ATHENSIslamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and Iranian Offshore Oil Co. have reached preliminary deals with South Korean shipyards for orders valued at roughly $2.4 billion, people involved in the talks said Tuesday. The agreements are part of Irans efforts to ...

A South Korean official has expressed his countrys readiness to invest in Irans fast-growing shipping industry as well as ports. Head of South Korea Maritime Institute Sang Gui Kim has told reporters during his recent visit to Iran that the country has high capabilities in the oil and gas sectors and that Seoul can cooperate with Tehran on shipbuilding ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Irans shipping line to Europe cut for the last 7 years has resumed again, said Managing Director of Irans Shipping Line Mohammad Saeedi. Shipping lines to Europe which was cut over last 7 years has been resumed and Homburg, Antwerp in Belgium and Genoa in Italy has been established permanently. He said 10 percent of Iranian shipping ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)-Sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic of Irans Shipping Lines (IRISL) would be lifted from January, said the IRISL Managing Director Mohammad Saiedi, adding the company plans to conclude agreements for building ships in coming weeks. He has recently said that the company plans to join 10 top shipping lines of the world and it is ...

Iran plans to expand its container fleet in order to extend forward coverage beyond all frontiers as the country sees Western sanctions being lifted as early as January, a senior official says. Irans shipping was among the first sectors hit by US-led sanctions regime which barred the countrys liners from calling at US and European ports. The regime ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and the countrys leading ports operator, the Tidewater Middle East Maritime Company, have been removed from the US list of companies designated for sanctions and assets freeze. The removal came after officials from Iran and P5+1 sealed a historic nuclear accord on Tuesday. The names of 16 shipping executives,...

Malta Freeport has renewed its contracts with Irans Hafiz Darya Shipping Lines (HDS) amid rising anticipation that sanctions will be removed on Tehran later this year, the national paper Times of Malta has reported. Malta was the Mediterranean transit hub of Iranian national shipping line IRISL en route to Europe before trade was cut due to intensified ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   President Rouhani: Sanctions unable to make Iran bow to unreasonable demands Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blasted the unfair sanctions imposed against the country, but meantime, underlined that they cannot force Tehran to accept the world powers unreasonable demands.  ...

Iran said on Saturday that it had launched a shipping line in the Caspian Sea to ferry goods to Russia and Kazakhstan. Valiollah Afkhamirad, the head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI), said the shipping line will be meant to increase the competitiveness conditions for Iranian businessmen in Caspian target markets. Afkhamirad added ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Head of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPO) Valiollah Afkhami Rad announced that the country plans to establish new regular shipping lines in the Caspian Sea in a bid to increase trade ties with the Lake's littoral states. The TPO plans to sign an agreement, according to which, the regular shipping lines will be established ...