برچسب: Minister of Roads and Urban Development

  • Targeting, training and recruiting specialist seafarers / fleet development is one of the priorities of the Ports Authority

    Targeting, training and recruiting specialist seafarers / fleet development is one of the priorities of the Ports Authority


    ‌According to Fars News Agency, quoting the information base of the Ports and Maritime Organization, Ali Akbar Safaei in the specialized meeting of the country’s maritime deputies, on the need for correct policy by the Ports Organization in order to achieve its goals, both in the national and national sectors. In the field of international affairs, he emphasized.

    He said that the Ports and Maritime Organization, as the representative of the government and decision-maker for different maritime sectors, should have correct and principled policies in place to align the country’s maritime affairs.

    Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development, duties and responsibilities in the field of maritime governance of the country Very nice He stressed the importance of 50,000 commercial vessels entering the country’s commercial ports annually, which use the various facilities and capacities of the maritime sector in the fields of dredging, hydrography, beacons, towing, etc.

    He considered one of the main challenges of the Ports Organization and consequently, other maritime organs of the country to be the training and supply of specialized seafarers and emphasized: The Ports Organization is carrying out programs to attract specialized and experienced seafarers.

    Safaei stated that the plans of the maritime sector should not be approved and formulated in a vacuum, adding that the maritime plans of the Ports Organization should be in line with the general policies of the system and the Sixth Development Plan.

    The Director General of the Ports and Maritime Organization described the dynamism and continuity of exports, imports and foreign trade as dependent on the development of the navy, and considered the development of the navy as another serious priority of this organization.

    He stressed: “Studies show that the development and modernization of the fleet is one of the serious needs of the country in the field of trade and attack.”ونقل It is considered a sea.

    Managing Director of the Ports and Maritime Organization on the 100% readiness of ports to receive and serve sea travelers during Nowruz and the upcoming holidays due to a two-year suspension in maritime tourism due to the prevalence coronavirus Emphasized.

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  • Unloading and loading 129 million tons of goods in ports / We are one step ahead of sanctions

    Unloading and loading 129 million tons of goods in ports / We are one step ahead of sanctions


    According to Fars News Agency’s economic correspondent, Ali Akbar Safaei said in a press conference at the 5th Transport, Logistics and Related Industries Exhibition this afternoon: “Sanctions have affected maritime transport, but maritime transport is always one step ahead of US sanctions.” have been. We have passed US maritime sanctions and we hope that with the lifting of sanctions, employment growth will be possible.

    He continued: “Currently, our shipping fleet carries export and imported products and we have no problem in terms of unloading and loading.”

    The director general of the Ports and Maritime Organization, referring to the 12 percent growth in unloading and loading in the first eight months of this year, added: “We have seen growth in all port procedures compared to the same period last year.”

    Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development added: “During this period, we have had a 30% increase in unloading and loading and 129 million tons of goods were unloaded and loaded in ports.”

    He said: “After the revolution, very good activities have been carried out in Chabahar port, as the only ocean port in Iran, and the capacity has increased to 12.5 million tons.”

    The director general of the Ports and Maritime Organization added: The performance of Chabahar port is currently 3.6 million tons. In the container sector, we have sometimes seen a decrease in performance in this port.

    He added: “We are trying to expand the trade flow of goods from Chabahar port, considering that we have a good capacity in the port sector, negotiations are underway with the shipping of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the resumption of services to Chabahar port.”

    Referring to the Iran-India agreement in Chabahar port, Safaei said: “We have not waited for a long-term 10-year agreement and we have followed a short-term agreement, however, in some cases we criticize the performance of Indians.”

    “We will have a meeting with the Indians in the near future and we will try to resolve the issues,” he said. The Indian operator is trying to increase the traffic in Chabahar port and has done good marketing for it internationally.

    The Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development said: China and India are friends of Iran and have cooperated with us in difficult times. The Chinese have cooperated with us more and it is natural that some issues will arise that we will resolve with understanding.

    The Director General of the Ports and Maritime Organization, referring to the construction of 900 meters of wharf in Shahid Rajaei Port, said: In case of internal capacity to produce gate cranes, the Ports and Maritime Organization will fully support the internal capacity.

    He said: “Every year, an average of 50,000 large ships enter the waters of Iran and then dock at ports and carry out unloading or loading operations.”

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  • Renovation of trucks on the agenda of the Ministry of Roads / planning for the transportation transformation plan

    Renovation of trucks on the agenda of the Ministry of Roads / planning for the transportation transformation plan


    According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, Rostam Ghasemi said this afternoon in a ceremony commemorating the National Transportation Day: The active forces in the public road transport sector and the active forces in the highways have been able to take very effective measures around the clock and in difficult conditions. Put on your agenda.

    He pointed out that today in the Highway Organization, the latest world knowledge and new knowledge is used, adding: “People may not be aware of all this information in this situation, but the Highway Organization has been able to use new knowledge to all parts of the country.” Send through the road fleet and this is a great progress for the country.

    The Minister of Roads and Urban Development added: “All people work with transportation in some way, and we must be a good host for the people in this sector.”

    Ghasemi said: The transportation sector in our country, which is in a special geographical and geopolitical situation, should use this opportunity and should be a source of income for the country.

    He added: “In many countries that do not have the geopolitical conditions of Iran, more than 25 percent of GDP was obtained through transportation, so these statistics show that the transportation sector is very important and decisive for a country’s income.”

    Ghasemi said: “Currently, the sea and road sector is very important for a country’s economy, and we must put important measures on our agenda in this area.”

    He emphasized: the modernization of the road fleet should always be on the agenda and this modernization is a serious need of the country.

    Ghasemi continued: “We have put programs on the agenda to speed up the trains and create a cheap and safe transportation development, as well as for the country’s air sector.”

    The Minister of Roads and Urban Development continued: “In the road freight fleet sector, we should also put the modernization of trucks on the agenda, because 400,000 trucks travel on the country’s roads, and their modernization is a serious need for us.”

    Ghasemi said: “Implementation of the transport transformation plan is one of our main plans because in the main road corridors to connect to transit routes that have missing links, we must act quickly and increase our capacity in transit.”

    He stated: we should use this capacity in the rural roads sector as well; There are currently 30,000 rural roads left that require new contracts.

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  • Launching a terrestrial aquifer to Syria with a public road fleet / 13,000 billion road debt to contractors

    Launching a terrestrial aquifer to Syria with a public road fleet / 13,000 billion road debt to contractors


    According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, Dariush Amani stated in a press conference today: 240 240 million people are transported annually through the public transport fleet.

    Referring to the study of land travel through public road transport to Syria and Turkey, he said: “We are studying this issue and in the near future it will be possible to travel by public transport to these neighboring countries.”

    * Admission of passengers in the public fleet of roads only with a vaccine card

    The head of the Roads and Transportation Organization added: “From December 1, this year, passengers will be accepted in buses and the public road transport fleet based on the vaccination card.”

    Amani said about the change in the price of bus tickets, considering the 100% acceptance of passengers from December this year: in the days of the outbreak coronavirus The price of bus tickets did not increase much, and according to estimates, road transport companies suffered losses of about 3,000 billion tomans during this period.

    “Early in the outbreak of the virus,” said the head of the Highways and Road Transport Organization coronavirus, The trip was closed for a while and after the resumption of the trips, health protocols were applied and the passenger admission in the bus, minibus and passenger fleet was limited and reduced according to the protocols, in this case the transfer of passengers to the transport companies. And transportation was not economical, but all companies were committed to their duties and responsibilities.

    * Renovation of 6,000 worn-out trucks from domestic production sites

    He spoke about the latest situation of modernization of the truck fleet from the place of domestic production: “We have tried to use the capacity of domestic production” to modernize the truck fleet. An in-house manufacturer (Mammoth) and a contract for the production of another 5,000 trucks was signed with Iran Khodro, and we are looking to finance these contracts.

    Amani stated: “Also, in a contract with Hepco in the field of construction of road equipment, financial resources were provided to activate the production line of this factory.”

    The Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development stated: “Before the sanctions, in the field of production of Scania and Iran Mammoth trucks, Benz cars were produced in the country, but today, due to the increase تحرThe engines of these trucks are often supplied from China.

    * We are facing the problem of increasing the price of bitumen in the stock market

    He considered the supply of bitumen as one of the problems of the Road Organization today and said: “We have had follow-ups from the parliament to make the issue of providing free bitumen operational. If the problem of bitumen allocation is solved, many projects will be implemented quickly.”

    Amani said: “Today we are facing the problem of increasing the price of bitumen in the stock market, as the price of bitumen in the stock market has reached more than 12 million tomans and the allocation of bitumen is not the amount required by the road organization.”

    The head of the Roads and Transportation Organization continued: “According to a decree in the budget law, bitumen allocation will be operational in the second half of the year, but the second half of the year is not a good season for construction projects and we can only carry out development projects in a few tropical provinces.”

    He continued: The share of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development in free bitumen is 7 thousand and 200 billion Tomans, of which the Roads and Transportation Organization has a share of up to 2 thousand billion Tomans, and the parliament has entered into this issue as soon as possible. Free bitumen should be allocated to the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development and remittances have already been given

    Amani, referring to the agreement of the parliament with the relevant agencies to provide bitumen at a lower price to construction companies, said: “While today the price of bitumen is 12 million tomans per ton, with the arrival of the parliament, it has been decided that bitumen will cost 9 million and 350 thousand.” Toman should be allocated to the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development. Of course, the amount of allocated bitumen is very small and the Highways Organization needs two million tons of bitumen per year.

    Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development on whether bitumen purification continues with contractors’ debts? He said: ‌ Any purification about bitumen is prohibited and we have no purification in this regard, the process of bitumen consumption is transparent and all bitumen-related operations are reported in the relevant system.

    * Debt of 13 thousand billion Tomans of the Road Organization to the contractors

    He stated about the amount of contractors’ claims from the Roads and Transportation Organization: ‌ Currently, the amount of debts of the Roads Organization to the contractors in the system is about 8 thousand billion Tomans, of which more than four thousand billion Tomans will be added to this number, but still This number is not entered in the system.

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  • Approval of the special plan for organizing 35 islands of the country under the auspices of the Ports Organization

    Approval of the special plan for organizing 35 islands of the country under the auspices of the Ports Organization


    According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, Mohammad Rastad stated this afternoon at the World Maritime Day ceremony: “We are one of the leading countries in the world in terms of fleet owned and flagged.”

    He added: in the field of port terminals, the annual capacity of commercial port terminals is 260 million tons.

    The Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development said: “150 million tons of this capacity will be exploited and this shows that we still have a lot of capacity.”

    Rastad added: “Apart from the capacities of the port and the fleet, economic relations should grow in such a way that this potential capacity is used optimally.”

    He continued: “We must seek to attract transit goods in suitable conditions and ports to.” hubTransit areas of the region. We have the ability to hub Be a transhipment of some ports in the region.

    The Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development said: “In marine industries, we have a good development infrastructure in terms of capacity, but in order to build domestically, we need financing and financial resources.” Our same shipping company, if they go to foreign shipyards, can buy ships at 10% of the ship’s price, and the rest of that country offers low-interest facility financing, and in fact supports their maritime industry.

    Rastad added: in the field of the fleet required by the Ports Organization, which relies on the resources of the organization, all the needs of the next two decades have been ordered to the domestic maritime industry.

    He stated: In the field Offshore We are determined to replace the fleet. A movement has started under the special measures of the Supreme Council of Marine Industries, and we are also in the field of facilities وجوهه We support the administration.

    The Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development noted: For the future development of ports, according to market studies and economic growth forecast, the comprehensive plan of commercial ports for Horizon 1404 has been finalized and we know what should be done in the next four years in terms of infrastructure and superstructure of ports and equipment.

    Rastad emphasized: in the development of the islands before this difference between ذی‌Benefits There were differences in the organization, but the Coastal and Ports Organizing Committee approved a special plan to organize the 35 islands of the country under the auspices of the Ports Organization, and we will have an action plan for all the islands in different sections.

    He added: “The integrated coastal management plan has reached the stage of refinement on a scale of 1-5 thousandths; With the approval of management management refinement plans, we will take action on how to properly exploit the country’s coastline.

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