{"id":72219,"date":"2023-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2023\/07\/24\/iran-iraq-to-open-joint-freezone-by-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T00:00:00","slug":"iran-iraq-to-open-joint-freezone-by-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/logistics\/2023\/07\/24\/iran-iraq-to-open-joint-freezone-by-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran + Iraq to open joint freezone by 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Iraq and Iran are planning to establish a joint <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">free<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">zone at the countries\u2019 shared <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">border by March 2024<\/span><span style=\"\">, Iran\u2019s semi-official <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasnimnews.com\/en\/news\/2023\/07\/21\/2929019\/iran-iraq-to-open-joint-free-trade-zone\" style=\"\">Tasnim News Agency<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\"> quotes<\/span><span style=\"\"> Iran\u2019s Secretary of <\/span><span style=\"\">Supreme Council of Trade-Industrial and Special Economic Zones<\/span><span style=\"\"> Hojjatollah Abdolmaleki as saying<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. Feasibility studies for the freezone are currently underway, Abdolmaleki said.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">What we know: <\/span><span style=\"\">The zone is set to be located in Iran\u2019s western province of Ilam, in the area of the Mehran border crossing.<\/span><span style=\"\">Iraq will<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> use the zone to export products to other countries through Iran\u2019s access to the Indian Ocean, Tasnim reports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Background:<\/span><span style=\"\"> The establishment of a freezone comes following a meeting between Iran\u2019s Vice President Mohammad Mokhber and Iraqi Labor Minister Ahmed Al Asadi, in which they discussed the need to enhance economic cooperation by establishing joint factories and a joint <\/span><span style=\"\">free<\/span><span style=\"\">zone, Iran\u2019s state-owned <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.irna.ir\/news\/85175281\/Iran-s-VP-proposes-joint-free-trade-zone-with-Iraq\" style=\"\">Islamic Republic News Agency<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> writes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Iraq + Iran have been exploring different avenues of cooperation to deepen their trade  ties: <\/span><span style=\"\">The countries have agreed to cooperate on production lines to export <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/logistics\/en\/news\/story\/44a5e77c-ceaa-4c83-acb8-e41161cd9da8\" style=\"\">meds and pharma products<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\"> to countries in the MENA region. They also inked an agreement back in May to complete the 32 km <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/logistics\/en\/news\/story\/a228339c-2838-4782-9cab-58692b55a938\" style=\"\">Shalamcheh-Basra railway<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\">, which will connect Iran\u2019s Shalamchech to Basra. The countries are also looking into constructing a <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/logistics\/en\/news\/story\/4ef34151-2de3-4300-aec1-b5cea2e6c79d\" style=\"\">new rail link<\/a><\/span><span style=\"\"> from the Khosravi border crossing in Iran to Iraq\u2019s Karbala.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freezone will help Iraq leverage Iran\u2019s access to the Indian Ocean to export its products<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17,119,35,32,21],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-72219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zones","tag-enterprise-logistics","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-trade","tag-zones","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"644a374c-a4b5-41ce-8dbd-97a8fb51d961","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/7\/826.jpg,https:\/\/en.irna.ir\/news\/85175281\/Iran-s-VP-proposes-joint-free-trade-zone-with-Iraq","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Iran + Iraq to open joint freezone by 2024","related_issue":[72214],"teaser":"The freezone will help Iraq leverage Iran\u2019s access to the Indian Ocean to export its products","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/7\/.a6e5c37c-a13c-4e8d-a4c9-14526d694b8b.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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