Baku, Azerbaijan, April 11
By Khalid Kazimov - Trend:
Loading and unloading freights at Iranian 17 Iranian ports rose by 5 percent in the previous Iranian fiscal year (which ended March 20).
The goods loaded and unloaded at these ports added up in weight to 146.4 million metric tons, which was 7 million metric tons more than the amount of the previous year, Tasnim news agency reported April 11.
What is interesting is that the increase is owed to non-oil goods, since oil products for this period did not increase, but, on the contrary dropped by 128 thousand metric tons.
The non-oil products added up to 102.36 million metric tons approximately, rising by 7.5 percent for the one-year period, whereas oil trade at these ports hit 44 million metric tons, 0.3 percent lower than the preceding year.
Non-oil goods transit at these ports was registered at 116.8 percent that of the preceding year.
During this period, oil products import at these ports grew by 11.7 percent to hit 1.73 million metric tons.
Over 11.281 million metric tons of goods were transited via Iran during the first eleven months of the previous Iranian fiscal year (March 21, 2014-Feb. 20).
The figure indicates an increase by 6.2 percent compared to the same months of preceding year, Mohammad Javad Atrchian, director general of Border Transit and Terminals of the Roads Maintenance and Transportation Organization of Iran said.
The transited non-oil goods mostly consisted of home appliances, chemicals, cotton, construction materials and vehicles, he said.
Atrchian further said that Bandar Abbas port was the most active custom checkpoint in terms of transited goods into Iran, adding some three million metric tons of goods, equaling 26.7 percent, were transited via Bandar Abbas inside the country.
