TEHRAN - Deputy head of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) for ports and economic affairs said the country’s new incentive packages has lured new shipping companies for cooperating with Iran.

“New support packages have been provided for foreign shipping companies and that made several new foreign companies express readiness to work with us.” IRIB reported on Saturday quoting Mohammad-Ali Hassanzadeh-Mohammadi as saying.

According to the official, although a few insurance companies which work in the U.S. markets have refused to continue operating in Iran, several other companies with small markets in the United States are still working in Iran and a number of European and Asian companies have also expressed interest in cooperating with Iranian shipping lines.

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