News in Brief
Rail-transported goods up 89% in last three years: Bazrpash
Iran’s minister of roads and urban development announced an 89 percent growth in the transit of goods via rail during the government of the late president Ebrahim Raisi compared to the previous government.
Mehrdad Bazrpash referred to the statistics in the field of transit during the government of the late chief executive and said good agreements were inked with the regional countries in this field and the road transit volume rose from 9.3 tons to 14.7 tons last year, Tasnim News Agency reported.
It is hoped that the volume of the road transit will exceed 20 million tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (to end March 20, 2025), he added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Bazrpash pointed to the two macro projects namely “Iran Rah” and “Housing of People” and expounded on the positive measurers taken in the two fields.
The “Iran Rah” Project is a main issue in defining Iran’s logistics and transit opportunities and has been put atop agenda of the ministry, he said.
Electricity output grew 13.5% under Raisi’s government
Statistics indicate that Iran’s generation of electricity during the government of the late president Ebrahim Raisi registered a 13.5 percent growth, with Iran generating more electricity than industrialized countries like the UK and Italy.
The latest statistics released in a report on “Statistical Review of the Global Energy” show that Iran generated 382.9 terawatts/hour of electricity in 2023, registering a 4.3 percent hike compared to a year earlier.
Iran had generated more than 367.1 terawatts/hour of electricity in 2022.
The growth of Iran’s generation of electricity in 2023 was nearly twice that of the average growth of the generation of electricity in the world.
The report put the total generation of electricity worldwide in 2023 at more than 29,924 terawatts/hours, which was 2.5 percent higher than a year earlier.
Iran’s generation of electricity in 2023 exceeded that of industrialized countries like the UK, Italy, and Spain as well as Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand, the report added.