India Ports Global Ltd (IPGL) expects to start operations at the Iranian port of Chabahar by the end of May this year, following the delivery of a second batch of heavy equipment which included two 100tonne mobile cranes at the Shahid Beheshti port and with US sanctions alleviated.
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The Director General of Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) for Market Development and Agreements Affairs Mohammad Saeed Asl Saeedipour said on Tuesday that Italian firms keen on investing in Chabahar port.
He revealed the conclusion of agreement between concerned officials of the two countries for launching Chabahar-Venice shipping line.
Training seafarers, providing relevant equipment and providing port tariffs and services were discussed between Iranian and Italian officials.
In this meeting,...
India and Iran discussed the status of the Shahid Beheshti Port, Chabahar and full operationlisation of the Trilateral Transit Agreement during the 16th round of the Foreign Office Consultations in Tehran on Monday.
A statement from the Ministry of External Affairs said the Indian team was led by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and the Iranian delegation by Dr. Seyyed Abbas Araghchi. Mr. Gokhale met Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati, Senior Advisor to Supreme Leader...
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Exports will increase, with 100MT of domestic products sent during past 3 weeks & a total of 700MT since establishment of Chabahar, the Minister added.
The post Afghanistan moves first fruits via Chabahar...
Managing Director of Ports and Maritime Organization of Sistan and Baluchistan, Behrouz Aghaei announced that exports of non-oil goods from Chabahar Port has increased 100 percent in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (ending on August 22), in comparison with the same period last year.
According to him, Loading and unloading of oil and non-oil products have grown 41 percent year-on-year, in the said time.
As Aghaie announced in late June, Non-oil exports from Chabahar Port...
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The port project in Iran is buffeted by competing geopolitical interests. India may have to rebalance its priorities in the region
Perhaps the first announcement that India had acquiesced to US pressure to reduce oil purchases from Iran by May 2 to zero — when the six-month US waiver to India came to an end — was unusually not made by the Petroleum Ministry in Delhi, but by Indian Ambassador to Washington Harsh Shringla.
Later, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in his recent trip to New Delhi,...
The government’s decision to slash its allocation for Iran’s Chabahar port by two-thirds, as announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the latest Budget will be a further blow to India-Afghan trade, already hit by Pakistan’s decision to ban airspace rights to most flights to and from India, and U.S. sanctions on Iran, officials and diplomats in Delhi and Kabul said.
The government, which had been allocating ₹150 crore for the port each year for the past few years, has slashed its...
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The Indian Ambassador to Iran Gaddam Dharmendra made the remarks in a meeting with directors of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan on Sunday, July.
Dharmendra said in a meeting that Chabahar has become a new symbol of Iran-India relationship, stressing that his country will spare not efforts to operationalize the EXIM bank in Iran.
The diplomat added that India is committed to solving problems and removing barriers to trade at Chabahar...
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India Ports Global Ltd has scrapped a long-running tender to select an Indian strategic partner to manage, operate and maintain (MOM) the container and multi-purpose terminals at the Chabahar port in Iran.
India Ports Global, a joint venture between the state-owned Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust and the Deendayal Port Trust, has scrapped the tender issued in December 2017, citing lack of clarity on sanctions that were re-imposed last year by the US on the Persian Gulf nation over its disputed...
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The US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells says Washington has agreed with the request of Kabul to exempt Iran’s Chabahar port from the US sanctions, considering the significance of the strategic port city for the development of Afghanistan.
Alice Wells made the comments in a meeting with Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani.
Wells informed the foreign minister about the renewal of the waiver with respect to the Chabahar Port vis-a-vis...
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