Transportation

Iran Says Almost All Border Crossings Reopened by Neighbours.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran is prepared to transfer its experiences and the equipment needed in fight against the novel coronavirus to neighbouring countries, including the friendly country of Azerbaijan Republic.

Iran and the Azerbaijan Republic have underlined the need to enhance mutual relations on all fronts.

Iran and Turkey have agreed on the 24-hour operation of their customs offices at the borders while observing the health protocols amid the outbreak of coronavirus.

Iran says after the implementation of the social distancing plan, people's trips decreased by 80 percent during the Nowruz holidays.

Iran’s Minister of Roads and Civil Development says the government has allocated about $500 million to compensate for the losses the transportation companies that suffered damages from the Coronavirus outbreak.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says the Ministry has launched efforts to settle the problems that Iranian truck drivers may be facing in the other countries, as in Europe.

Iran’s main airline Homa, known internationally as IranAir, will resume flights to Europe after a four-day hiatus that came because of unspecified restrictions by European authorities.

Iran’s flag-carrier airline Homa, also known as Iran Air, says all its flights to Europe has been suspended until further notice over restrictions imposed by European countries.

Iran has conferred with the Azerbaijan Republic and Turkey on ways of promoting mutual trade cooperation amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says the Iranian airlines have received permission for the resumption of flights to the United Arab Emirates.

A freeway connecting the Iranian capital, Tehran, to the north of the country has been inaugurated.

An Israeli airstrike, carried out as Syria troops were liberating the terrorist-held town of Saraqib in northwestern Idlib province, has endangered a civilian flight carrying 172 passengers, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Iranian Minister of Health Saeed Namaki says Iran has temporarily halted all flights to and from China as the novel coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, spreads across the country and the rest of the world.

The Tehran-Mahshahr Flight 6936, a Boeing MD plane operated by Caspian Airline, slid off the runway and stopped in the middle of a road in Mahshahr on Monday, with no casualties reported.

Iran Airtour Airline’s Flight 9716 destined for Istanbul suffered a technical problem minutes after take-off, but managed to land at Mehrabad Airport safely.

Direct flights have been officially launched between Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah and Iran’s Kish Island, and the first passenger plane carrying the Kurdish tourists landed on the Persian Gulf island earlier this week.

Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari has unveiled a homegrown flight simulator for Airbus A320 passenger jetliner.

An Iranian official says data on the black box of the Ukrainian plane that was mistakenly shot down by Iranian air defence systems near Tehran last Wednesday will be decoded in France.

Iran’s energy minister says the country plans to electrify motorcycles in metropolises as part of a technical-economic program to reduce air pollution.

Iran’s Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Reza Rahmani has expressed the country’s resolve to carry out a joint project on a transportation corridor with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Oman.

A group of Iranian knowledge-based companies have worked together to design and build the propulsion system of the subway cars.

President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday officially inaugurated the Mianeh-Bostan Abad Railway during his visit to East Azarbaijan Province.

Ministers from Iran and Syria have discussed the ways to promote cooperation between the two countries in the housing and road construction sectors.

It’s been a few months that an Iranian woman named Parvaneh Sohrabi has been appointed as the first female airport manager in Iran and in the Middle East.