Iran’s 10 months engineering exports hit 2.3 billion dollars

TEHRAN,Feb.23(MNA) -- Iran exported over $2.3 billion worth of technical and engineering services in the first 10 months of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 20, 2012. The exported services are predominantly in the hydroelectric, power and transmission sectors. Iran has signed couple of technical and engineering projects in recent years in the fields of energy, industry and housing in several Asian and African countries. Iran aims to export $4.5 billion worth of technical and engineering services in the current calendar year. Iran has exported over $20 billion worth of technical and engineering services over 2001-2011, the head of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) had said recently. Hamid Safdel added that the exports were mainly related to power, industry, road, and petrochemical sectors.