Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct.22/ Trend, R. Zamanov
Iran produced 1.364 million tons of crude steel in September 2013, the World Steel Association said in its latest press release.
The figure shows an increase of over 10.7 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, the IRIB News Agency reported.
The country's total output in the first three quarters of 2013 amounted to 11.318 million tons.
World crude steel production for the 65 countries reporting to the WSA was 132.54 million tons in September, up 6.1 per cent compared to September 2013.
World crude steel production in the first nine months of 2013 was 1.168 billion tons, an increase of 2.7 percent compared to the same period of 2012.
Iran's crude steel production reached 14.89 million tons in the previous Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20.
Iran plans to increase its annual steel output to 55 million tons by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Development Plan (2015).