PMO News Portal - Referring to the latest statistics on
private sector investment in the country's ports, Farhad Montaser Kouhsari stated
that the main private sector investment in the country's ports has been in
field of construction of grain silos, oil tanks, food and industrial complexes
and so on.
He continued: that the amount of private sector investment
in the country's ports is collectively around 161 thousand and 235 billion Rls.,
and the private sector investment in the
country's ports during last was amounted to 55,694 billion Rls.
Regarding the organization's goal in attracting private
sector invesrtment in the current year, The Deputy Minister of Ports and
Economic Affairs of the Ports and Maritime Organization, said: According to the
plan of investment objectives, the forecast of attracting investment of 18,000
billion Rls. in the country's ports is in order, of which nearly three thousand
billion Rls. have been realized so far.
Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of public sector
management through guidelines and studies, improving the design and set of the
tax system, especially in free and special commercial zones, and the wider
development of low-cost banking facilities to the private sector are some of the
measures taken to improve business atmosphere in port areas.