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Tehran, PIMI Editorial Team: After “JCOPA” fast expansion of the Iranian business relations with the world, has resulted in “Back and Forth” busy trips of so many delegations from diverse countries. Just Italians have sent two great delegations within months.
On of the main part of these trips aims, big demands for infrastructures. By Aviation and Transportation industries being the main focal points. The following topics (collected, verified and edited by PIMI Editorial Team) show last few days’ activities in this regard.
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Iran rail expansion; Focus on Italians
Iran has signed an agreement, including 5 billion euros in export credits from Italy, to expand and modernize its rail network.
The agreement, signed during a meeting of traders chaired by Italy’s Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Graziano Delrio and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Akhoundi in Tehran Tuesday, envisages developing high-speed rail links.
As part of the agreement, Italy’s state railway company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) will provide Iran’s RAI railway company with 5 billion euros ($5.65 billion) in export credits.
“The FS group will supply assistance to the Iranian railways for both high-speed and conventional rail lines, including a complete program for training personnel,” said a statement issued by the company in Rome.
The agreement was signed by Ferrovie Chief Executive Renato Mazzoncini and RAI Managing Director Mohsen Poursaeed-Aqaei during the third mission of Italian businesses to Tehran in recent months.
It came in the wake of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Italy last month, which marked the signing of a raft of deals worth $18 billion (15.9 billion).
Akhoundi said FS will carry out the planning and construction of a high-speed rail corridor linking the Iranian cities of Tehran, Qom and Isfahan.
The initial agreement also includes electrifying the rail link between Tehran and Tabriz and upgrading the road between Bandar Imam Khomeini in the Persian Gulf and the Bazargan border with Turkey, he said.
FS said it will be on the “frontline” for the planning and construction of high-speed rail links between the Iranian cities of Tehran and Hamadan, and between Arak and Qom.
Iran has already secured a soft loan from the Chinese to build a high-speed rail line between Tehran and Mashhahd. Akhoundi said the country is considering a similar arrangement with the Italians.
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EU airlines to launch flights to Iran soon
Iran said on Thursday that several leading European airlines have presented plans to start making extraordinary trips to its Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) in late March.
The announcement has been made by Iran’s Ministry of Transportation and Urban Development which says the European flights will start to land in IKIA in late March.
The airlines have been named as British Airways, KLM and Air France.
Hamid-Reza Seyyedi, a board member of IKIA Airport City, has been quoted by the media as saying that the three airlines have presented their flight plans to Iran for late March and that their plans have been finalized.
Seyyedi said the extraordinary flights are meant to answer the surge in the number of flights to Iran when the country is marking the new calendar year (to start 21 March 2016).
He also said Lufthansa that has already resumed its flights to Iran has requested to increase its flights to seven sorties per week throughout the new Iranian year holidays that end on 1 April 2016.
The official further emphasized that Iran expects an increase of at least 20 percent in the number of flights to IKIA during the holidays for the new Iranian year – known as the Norouz.
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Iran Air will fly back to Japan
Iran and Japan are discussing flights between their capitals both by national flag carrier Iran Air and multiple airlines, a report says.
Iran Air is preparing to resume once-a-week flight connecting Tokyo’s Narita Airport with Tehran with a stop in Beijing, the financial news and data provider Bloomberg said, citing unnamed people familiar with the situation.
The Iranian airline ended flights in 2012 when the West imposed new sanctions on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program.
Bloomberg said the earliest Iran Air is likely to resume service is next year. The two sides, however, are expected to reach an agreement “soon” on allowing direct flights between the countries for multiple airlines, it added.
Japan Airlines Co. stopped direct flights to Tehran in 1980 following the Islamic Revolution the previous year.
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