News ID : 72820
Publish Date : 6/21/2021 11:49:56 PM
Rouhani Opens New Projects in Free Zones

Rouhani Opens New Projects in Free Zones

The new projects were opened in East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Khuzestan, Hormuzgan, Gilan, and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces.

NOURNEWS - President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated new projects in free trade zones (FTZs) in Northern, Northwestern, Southeastern, and Southern Iran worth millions of dollars.

The new projects were opened in East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Khuzestan, Hormuzgan, Gilan, and Sistan-Baluchestan provinces. 

They will provide job opportunities for 920 people in Kish Island, Qeshm, Arvand, Aras, and Anzali.

The Iranian president will open 15 production and economic plans worth 2,619 billion tomans in Aras and 11 economic and infrastructural plans worth 225 billion tomans in Arvand.

Meanwhile, 15 production and infrastructural projects worth 2,480 billion tomans were inaugurated in Qeshm Island and nine others in Kish Island.

The implementation process of 52 other projects worth 64,192  billion tomans and with a capacity of creating jobs for 7,117 people also started.

In a relevant development in mid-May, President Rouhani inaugurated several infrastructural projects in the country's free trade zones.

The trade, industrial and economic projects were inaugurated in a ceremony through a video conference.

The projects, with a total investment of 6,200 billion tomans, are in Eat Azerbaijan, Khuzestan, Sistan and Balouchestan, Hormuzgan and Alborz provinces in Northwest, South, Southeast, South, and North of the country, respectively.

Addressing the ceremony, the president talked of the Shalamcheh-Basra railroad project which is so strategic and can lead to development in this region.

"This will be a big development," said he, adding that the project will actually connect Iran from Iraq to Syria and to the Mediterranean Sea.

Shalamcheh-Basra railroad project is an important plan whose operation is being followed up by the government during its final months, Rouhani underlined.

Preliminaries to the project have been completed, said the president, expressing the hope that it would lead to the development of Southern and Southwestern Iranian provinces.


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