tag Abbas Akhoundi

Iran: New Logistics Document Seeks to Cut Transport Costs by 30 Percent

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s Logistics Centers Planning Document, which aims to reduce transportation expenses by up to 30% when fully implemented, was ratified by the High Council of Transportation on Aug. 21 and notified by the now-outgoing Roads Minister Abbas Akhoundi on Sept. 10 to all bodies involved in the implementation of the document.
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Publish Date:23/October/2018 | 07:58

Iran Invites Azerbaijan to Join New Railroad

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi has invited Azerbaijan to join a new railroad that links the border town of Parsabad in Iran’s Ardabil Province to Mugan Plain in northwestern Iran and the southern part of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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Publish Date:31/July/2018 | 05:31

Iran, Syria Sign MoU for Strategic Economic Ties

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi and Syrian Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade Samer al-Khalil signed an economic memorandum of understanding on Friday.
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Publish Date:20/May/2018 | 08:35

Tehran, Damascus Discuss Syrian Reconstruction

EghtesadOnline: Syrian Public Works and Housing Minister Hussein Arnous discussed with Iran’s Roads and Urban Development Minister Abbas Akhoundi on Thursday the prospect of cooperation between Syria and Iran during Syria’s reconstruction.
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Publish Date:19/May/2018 | 07:51

Iranian Transport Delegation in Turkmenistan

EghtesadOnline: Leading a high-ranking delegation, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi set off to Turkmenistan on May 2 to attend transportation-related events during his two-day stay in the neighboring country.
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Publish Date:05/May/2018 | 11:03

Iran Interested in CPEC Partnership With Pakistan

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s Minister for Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi expressed interest in exploring avenues available under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
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Publish Date:15/April/2018 | 10:55

New Chief for IKIA Airport City Company

EghtesadOnline: Shahram Adamnejad has been appointed as the CEO of Imam Khomeini International Airport City Company by Roads Minister Abbas Akhoundi .
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Publish Date:14/January/2018 | 09:45

Iran-Azeri Rail Link This Week

EghtesadOnline: The railroad connecting Iran’s northwestern city of Astara to the eponymous Azerbaijani city has been completed and will come on stream next week, Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi announced.
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Publish Date:13/January/2018 | 08:57

Iran Transport Minister to Visit India

EghtesadOnline: Heading a nine-member delegation of representatives of private companies, Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi is scheduled to visit India on Wednesday.
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Publish Date:10/January/2018 | 13:55

Akhoundi Attends Belt & Road Forum in Tbilisi

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi attended the One Belt-One Road Forum 2017 in Tbilisi and met with Georgian First Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Dimitry Kumsishvili and Minister of Finance Mamuka Bakhtadze, as well as Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transportation and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic, Turkish Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communications Ahmet Arslan and Director General for Mobility and Transport with the European Commission Henrik Hololei.
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Publish Date:13/December/2017 | 15:09

Reinventing Iran Housing Policies, Perceptions

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi believes that instilling a change in the outlook toward devising the housing policy and looking at life qualitatively, rather than quantitatively, offer a solution to the sector's problems.
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Publish Date:15/October/2017 | 10:58

Home Loan Applicants Reach 260,000

EghtesadOnline: Roads and Urban Development Minister Abbas Akhoundi has announced that 260,000 people have so far applied for home loans by opening Housing Saving Accounts, which indicates that the scheme has met with good response.
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Publish Date:23/September/2017 | 24:53

France Gov't to Grant €70m for Development of Iranian Airports

EghtesadOnline: The French Ministry for the Economy and Finance is planning to grant a €70 million loan to Iran for the renovation of the country's airport equipment and radars, said Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, secretary of state to the minister for Europe and foreign affairs in a meeting with Abbas Akhoundi , the Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development in Tehran on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:20/September/2017 | 09:49

Community-Based Solution Proposed for Tackling Urban Woes

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi has called on the administration to reduce top-down interventions aimed at solving challenges facing major metropolitan areas and to instead engage the public more to overcome them.
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Publish Date:16/September/2017 | 03:56

More Appointments at Roads Ministry

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi has appointed Mohammad Rastad to replace Mohammad Saeednejad as his deputy and the managing director of Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran.
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Publish Date:13/September/2017 | 24:11

Trilateral Trade Meeting With Oman, Qatar

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi attended a meeting with Oman’s Minister of Transport and Communications Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Salem Al-Futaisi and his Qatari counterpart, Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:11/September/2017 | 10:57

Transportation Ministry’s Performance in Retrospect

EghtesadOnline: When Iran and the West reached a deal in 2015 to finally resolve a dispute over Iran’s nuclear program and lift the crippling economic sanctions, Iran was off to a good start. But perhaps without savvy technocrats inducted by President Hassan Rouhani in his Cabinet, this opportunity would have been wasted.
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Publish Date:15/August/2017 | 16:15

Encouraging Home Ownership Tops Akhoundi’s Agenda

EghtesadOnline: Despite his critics' assertions to the contrary, President Hassan Rouhani regards Abbas Akhoundi as the best choice to rescue the stagnant housing sector–a job he has been pursuing for the last four years.
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Publish Date:15/August/2017 | 14:16