2. OPEXFUND Introduction
Iranian Oil Products Export Development Fund Of Iran with the aim of attracting the
participation of those interested in investing on Refining - Petrochemical and Logis-
tics projects of export products to implement major export projects and to attract
dispersed capital founded in 2004 and attempt to create a database of investors
in lower part oil and gas and petrochemical industries in the country. And by form-
ing consortium comprising 97 major shareholder, manufacturer, and exporter of oil,
gas, and petrochemical products of country and as the executive and economic arm
of Exporters Association of petroleum, gas and petrochemical products has entered
in the area of supports And investment in the massive oil and petrochemical pro-
jects, Production of container terminals in order to export petroleum products and
establishing the fuel tanks in free and special zones of the country.
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3. Specialized container terminal for Exports of oil products at the Shahid
Rajaei port
Iranian Oil Products Export Development Fund Of Iran has begun its export activities in
Shahid Rajaee port with the construction of a specialized terminal to export petroleum
products which is an area of 10 hectares and with an investment of over 7.5 million dollars
for founders, about 2 million dollars for machineries. And parallel to the exploitation of that,
it is building a 13-hectares terminal for exports and imports of all goods in the land which
is in the vicinity of the terminal. Therefore, the Iranian Oil Products Export Development
Fund can involve in the field of service in addition to their export via the exploitation of
terminal 13 hectares and after completion of the terminal. Since the terminal is not special-
ized terminal it will cover a range of goods.
Azma Falat Iranian Company
After construction of a 10-hectares container terminal for Exporting of oil products In the
Port Shahidrajaei, Oil Products Export Development Fund Of Iran established Azma Falat
Iranian Company, a port services company that directly undertook exploitation of the spe-
cialized terminal. At now, container services are carried out including stuffing, container
transportation, storage, container depot, and clearance in the 10 hectares terminal using
the most advanced equipment in the world. Also, there is 3,600 square meters warehouse
for storage service which is other available facility in the terminal.
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4. Other activities
Iranian Oil Products Export Development Fund Of Iran, according to its aims and
objectives based on statute can activate in many fields,
The scope of the activities is as follows:
Marketing for services.
To guarantee oil products export.
To establish or participate in domestic and foreign exhibitions.
To act in the field of insurance and provide a variety of insurance services.
To carry out Customs services at ports in the country or customs of other countries.
To do all or some of after-sale services of exported goods.
To provide natural and legal persons with consultation on export in the oil products field.
To carry out other activities to achieve the goals for export determined by the Board.
Obtaining permission for Credit, financial and exchange activities from the Cen-
tral Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
To invest in exporting logistics affairs including loading and unloading terminal,
storage and so on.
To establish a database to collect information from foreign markets and offer it to clients.
Agency for Export Guarantee Fund of Iran
Iranian Oil Products Export Development Fund Have activated in warranty service
sector in addition to all logistic activities and investments and is agency of Export
Guarantee Fund of Iran in oil, gas, and petrochemical affairs.
Therefore, as agency for Export Guarantee Fund of Iran, it has a duty to inform,
introduce, and guide clients of Export Guarantee Fund of Iran to obtain Exporting in-
surance and guarantees and ultimately do the necessary pursuits in order to obtain
a result.
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5. Investments:
In addition to above operational activities and investments in container terminal, Iranian
Oil Products Export Development Fund have invested in many consortia Such as crude oil
export consortia and various company such as Espand Gas Iranian company and being in
verge oil bank.
Oil Products Export Development Fund has taken a major step toward exporting crude oil
by private sector via taking part in Petromond Caren consortia and active participation for
organizing these consortia.
Iranian Oil Products Export Development Fund try to realize exporting crude oil by private
sector in near future while have held several meeting with the Ministry of Petroleum and
interacted with officials .
Espand Gas Iranian Company, the Fund owns 20% of its shares, take action to sale and
purchase oil and LPG in neighboring countries, including Iraq and Pakistan by purchasing
19 gas tankers.
Facilities and Equipment
Twenty-two hectares container terminal at Shahid Rajaee port, and more than 3,000 square
meters of office buildings and 3,600 square meters of indoor shed.
Machinery:
Type of device count
Reach stacker tons45 2 set
Terminal Tractors 6 set
Forklifts tons3 12 set
Forklifts tons7 1set
Forklifts tons10 1set
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Future plans
1- To establish fuel storage station in Imam Khomeini and Shahid
Rajaei port, for this project it is Consider that a separate com-
pany found to manage, implement , and exploit of vessels. And
70% of remained plan will be entrusted third party by the partic-
ipation of 30% of funds under the mentioned company in these
two schemes.
All of consultation and correspondences has been done with de-
partments of these two ports and deposits and guarantees re-
quired, also technical and economic feasibility study of the pro-
ject is preparing by a consultant. The project includes a total of
14 tanks each with a capacity of 5000 tons to save fuel and oil
materials in the ports of Imam Khomeini and Rajaei.
Totaling is reserved about 6.5 hectares of land at the port for the
Fund.
2- The completion of the construction of the 12 acres Logistic
terminal of Products in vicinity of the terminal, Predicted capacity
for this container terminal about 120,000 per year. It should be
noted that the aforementioned terminal, is not the specialized
terminal for oil products have been privileges of export, import
and warehousing of all goods.
3-The development plan of depot containers in the assigned
land for Qeshm free zone To warehousing and depot consumer’s
goods in Terminal RAJAEE with agreement of the Port organi-
zation, 5 hectares of Entrusted by Rajaei Special Zone to Free
Zone Qeshm have been reserved by the fund. And the fund is on
the verge of signing a contract with Special Zone to start vacation
activities and landscaping of mentioned land. It should be noted
since the location of the land is very close to the current terminal
it is intended to allocate more space of the container terminal for
stuffing activities by transporting depot goods to this land.