The official said that the amount of Iran’s steel exports stood at 1.25 million tons last year.
Sobhani added that coastal areas of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman would change into centers for steel production in a near future.
The World Steel Association (WSA) recently announced that Iran with a production of nearly 1.45 million tons of raw steel in November stood 14th among the world industrial states.
In its latest report, the WSA said that the figure indicates a 6.1-percent growth compared with the corresponding figure of last year, which was 1.37mlntons.
According to the WSA report, the world’s top 10 steel producers in November were China (63.3mln tons), Japan (9.175mln tons), the US (7.2mln tons), India (6.89mln tons), South Korea (5.911mln tons), Russia (5.84mln tons), Germany (3.59mln tons), Turkey (2.79mln tons), Brazil (2.77mln tons) and Taiwan (1.9mln tons).
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Publish Date: 5 January 2015 - 00:18
Bandar Abbas, Hormuzgan Prov, Jan 5, IRNA – Head of Iran’s steel producers association Bahram Sobhani said on Sunday that some 1.33 million tons of steel were exported during the first three quarters of the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21, 2014).