Downturn

EghtesadOnline: More than 1.87 quadrillion rials ($14.3 billion) worth of investments have been made in the industrial units with establishment permits, while 245.91 trillion rials ($1.87 billion) were invested in projects with operating licenses in the first eight months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Nov. 21).

EghtesadOnline: Iran Airports Company registered 318,727 takeoffs and landings during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21), which indicate a 3% decline compared with the similar period of last year.

EghtesadOnline: Iran’s total exports of iron ore witnessed a noticeable downturn since the seventh Iranian month (Sept. 23-Oct. 22), at the beginning of which the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade started to impose tariffs on the export of unprocessed minerals, including iron ore.

EghtesdOnline: Major Iranian copper producers produced an aggregate of 102,163 tons of copper concentrate in the first Iranian month (March 21-April 20) to register a decrease of 5% compared with last year’s same month.