Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – June 10, 1997

After the morning prayer, we went to the Persian Gulf shipyard. After listening to the explanations, we visited the parts of the ship building that have not yet started their work and the repair of the ship and the lift of two thousand tons of dolphins, the water pond, the cradle, the cutting hall, the welding, the transfer buoy to the sea and the huge calm pond.

Then we visited the halls for the construction of marine structures created by our own Mehdi, for the construction of offshore oil and gas platforms and huge platforms under construction. I also hit the ground with a pickaxe for the construction of 470,000-ton and 300,000-ton dry ponds. After listening to the report of Mr. Nematzadeh, [Minister of Industries] and the director of the oil company, and giving the sign [of construction] to Mr. [Abolhasan] Khamshi, [Head of the Development Organization] and a certificate of appreciation to the managers, I spoke about the importance of marine industries and shipbuilding and marine structures and the establishment of the industrial town of marine industries.

We flew to Khmer port. We landed at the cement factory. After unveiling the memorial plaque - I had unveiled the plaque in all the plans - and listening to the report of the factory manager, we visited different departments. There were problems in the loading system; It is the first thing.

In the ceremony, we heard Mr. Nematzadeh's report about the cement industry and this factory, which is in two phases with a capacity of six thousand tons. I talked about the importance of cement and thanks for the expertise of domestic manufacturing and export of cement technical services and the large amount of investment in this sector, which has built 31 large factories during the two programs and from now on until the end of the program, one cement factory will be opened every 45 days.

We flew to Qeshm. After prayer, lunch and rest, we visited different parts of the island's development and in the industrial town, the exhibition of the island's industrial products and went to two factories; One of them produces multi-walled pipe, which is one of the new technologies in the world. Then we visited the biotechnology research center. Ms. Dr. [Nasrin] Moazzami gave good explanations about the importance and extent of work and richness of the waters of the Persian Gulf, for marine materials, for the production of medicines, vitamins, proteins and bone grafting materials from corals. Mr. Dr. Hekami gave detailed and unnecessary explanations about the failed medical research center, and due to the length of the ceremony, I did not speak.

We went to the airport. It was dusk; Due to the danger of flying in the dark, we canceled the ceremony for the opening of the airport and giving the signal to Mr. [Behrooz] Bushehri, [CEO of Qeshm Azad Region]. we flew Since Eft had not arrived, he stayed there with Mohsen and they came on the next plane and arrived an hour later than us. I didn't have the bedroom key with me; I waited until modesty arrived. We had dinner on the plane. [Mr. Gholam Ali Naeem Abadi], Imam Juma Bandar Abbas, came along and on the way requested me to continue my Quranic research and to write a topical commentary. I read the reports from the computer screen; It was not an important issue. We slept tiredly.