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Head of Hormuzgan’s Industries. Mines and Trade Organization Khalil Qassemi said that most of Hormuzgan’s goods were shipped to the Persian Gulf littoral states and East Asian countries.
Industrial and mineral commodities constituted 76% of last year’s total exports from Hormuzgan. he said. adding that other exported goods included fruits and vegetables. construction materials and salt.
According to the official. the organization has planned to provide the condition to increase the province’s exports up to $3.5 billion by the end of the current fiscal.
Hormuzgan province has 32 active ports. including Iran’s biggest container port. Shahid Rajaee. which accounts for more than half of the country`s total port throughput. Maritime transportation accounts for 85% of Iran’s foreign trade.
Iran is determining to increase its non-oil productions.
On Sunday. Iran’s Supreme Council of Economic Coordination. in a session that was chaired by President Hassan Rouhani and participated by heads of Judicial and Legislative branches. passed a bill to facilitate domestic production.
At the session. the council discussed and approved Facilitating Production project. which is aimed at removing obstacles on the path of production to boost it.
Headquarters for Facilitating Production was also authorized to decide on facilitating the payment of debts for production enterprises to prevent their closure.
In another part of the session. Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi also presented a report on production program and supplying communications needs of the country. based on which decisions were made by the council.
Last Tuesday. Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri stated that the country has taken a wide stride in reducing its dependence on crude revenues during the course of a several-year-long planning.
Fortunately. as a result of efforts made in recent years. the extent of budget`s dependence on oil revenues has reduced so much. Jahangiri said. addressing a meeting of the Supreme Council for Science. Research and Technology in Tehran.
He reminded that the government`s budget depended 80% to 90% on oil in the past. saying. This dependence has today decreased to 30%.
In relevant remarks last month. Iranian Industry Minister Reza Rahmani said that the government is resolved to set the stage for a major increase in the volume of non-oil exports in the current local calendar year (March 21. 2019-March 20. 2020).
One billion dollars of exports creates 50.000 jobs. Rahmani said in a meeting in the Western province of Kermanshah. underlining the significance of facilitating exports.
Production prosperity and preserving production units play a great role in job creation and uprooting unemployment. he added. calling on all the state-run organizations to cooperate for reaching the set exports targets.
Also. in March. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said that economic issues still remained atop the country’s concerns. and called on the government and the nation to boost production in the country.
Ayatollah Khamenei. in his televised message to the nation on the occasion of the New Persian Year. offered congratulations to the Iranians on the occasion of Nowruz. and named the New Year of 1398 as the year of “Pick-up in Production.
