Airbus was looking forward mégacommande this is done: Iran will buy 118 airliners Airbus including 12 A380 widebody aircraft. The human rights activist who had mobilized to ask François Hollande not to sacrifice morality to big business by selling Airbus in the country which executes the most prisoners per capita in the world, have not weighed well heavy face amount of the contract: $ 25 billion (€ 22.8 billion) will go into the coffers of the shareholders of the group, which include the French State, German and Spanish. The MoU was signed enthusiastically by leaders Airbus on Thursday at the Elysee, on the occasion of the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Paris.
In detail, the Iranian command is divided into “73 wide-body and 45 single aisle” long and medium-haul: the shopping list of the Islamic Republic has 21 A320ceo Family aircraft, 24 of the A320neo family, A330ceo 27 of the family, 18 A330neo (-900), 16 and 12 A350-1000 jumbo A380. The contract is for “the acquisition of 118 new aircraft, pilot training, airport operations and support ATM” ( Air Traffic Management) for air navigation, Airbus said in a statement. Subject to a US embargo dating from 1995 preventing Western manufacturers to sell equipment and spare parts for Iranian companies, Iranian commercial fleet that has only 140 planes in flying condition (mainly old Boeing and Tupolev) badly needs of these modern devices. Iran has estimated its needs between 400-500 airliners in the next decade. Builders are in the running and Boeing, the great rival Airbus hopes also sell a hundred aircraft to the Iranians.
Meanwhile, giants Bouygues and Vinci Construction and the manager of ADP Paris airports have also signed memoranda of understanding to develop three airports in Iran, knowing that the country now has more than 9 really operational airports. Other airports whose equipment is obsolete now serve the old cemeteries of Iran Air appliances and other companies that can not fly for lack of spare parts. Candidates for several years to achieve an extension of Tehran airport, Bouygues Construction and ADP signed an economic agreement protocol on “the design, construction and supervision of works” of this project . Vinci won her a Memorandum of Understanding on “the design, construction, supervision of work” but “the exploitation of new terminals” of airports Mashhad and Isfahan. The amount of these potential contracts still to finalize undisclosed.
PSA sign a comeback
Other large French companies have won contracts thanks to the visit of Hassan Rouhani. Including PSA, which had left the country in 2012, but Peugeot has remained very popular in Iran: the automaker has formalized this Thursday the creation of a joint venture with Iran Khodro, its historical partner, will invest 200 million euros in five years to produce locally futures 200,000 cars. With 80 million inhabitants and 1.6 million registrations per year, Iran is a market that is also dreaming Renault, but the diamond brand still discussing with local partners to launch new models in the country.
Finally, Total signed a contract with Iran to buy her between 150,000 and 200,000 barrels of crude per day for Europe and French refineries. “ This is the beginning of a story ,” commented the CEO of Total, Patrick Pouyanné, who hopes that his group will be one of the first to take advantage of the reopening of the country which has fourth world oil reserves and second gas. Suffice to say that respect for human rights (and women) in Iran was not at the discussions of the day menu at the Elysee.
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