Latest Transportation News in Iran – Shipping, road haulage, public transport, rail freight, aerospace and passenger travel are all covered in this section.
Iran’s Minister of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare Ali Rabi’ei and Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi have survived impeachment bids by the Parliament after securing a vote of confidence from lawmakers.
After a gap of 27 years, direct flights between Iran and Serbia resumed Saturday, when an IranAir jet touched down at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla airport, Serbian media reported.
The flight recorder of an ATR 72 plane that recently crashed into a mountaintop in southwest Iran, killing all 65 people on board, is slated to be sent to France to be decoded, a lawmaker said.
A new car fueling system has been launched in Iran based on which the car owners order fuel using a mobile application and receive it wherever they are.
The Sunday crash of an Iranian ATR 72 passenger plane in central Iran during a flight from Tehran to the southwestern city of Yasuj, which claimed the lives of 66 people, has once again brought into the limelight the issue of unilateral US sanctions and their deleterious effect on Iran's transportation sector, especially the country’s civil aviation fleet.
Amid the controversies over the delivery of Boeing and Airbus passenger planes to Iran, a Russian-built Sukhoi Superjet 100 has landed at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport with a team of engineers on board to make Iran interested in purchasing the airliner.
The number of flights crossing Iran’s sky has increased by three times over the past years thanks to the country’s airspace security, said the Commander of the Iranian Army's Khatam al-Anbia Air Defence Base.
The runways of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport were dug out from under 70 centimeters (more than two feet) of snow, letting flights resume on Sunday morning.
Iran has dismissed media reports that it refused to issue a permit for a plane carrying the Bulgarian Prime Minister to pass through the Islamic Republic’s airspace.
The first air taxi service in Iran is going to be established in the north-eastern city of Bojnourd within the coming months, an Iranian official announced.
Baghdad’s ban on the arrival and departure of foreign flights at/from Kurdistan airports has reportedly caused a loss of 50 to 60 thousand dollars a day.
Iran’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development says South Korea and Germany will provide funds for the development of electric trains in the Islamic Republic.
An advisor to Iran’s Leader says the US Congress’ move to block sales of aircraft to Iran is in violation of the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Iran has issued ultimatums to five European states to stick to their commitments under the contracts earlier signed on selling airplanes to Tehran, otherwise the country may revise its deals.
Iran says at least 1,400 planes cross its skies everyday – an announcement that a top military official in Tehran says is a proof of the country’s airspace security for regional and transregional airliners.
