TEHRAN (Iran News) – India’s second consignment of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan has arrived in Chabahar’s Shahid Beheshti Port, said the director-general of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department.
Behrouz Aghaei said on Wednesday that “the ‘Kashan’ ship carrying 435 containers carrying 10,000 tons of wheat, out of a total humanitarian aid of 75,000 tons from India’s ports to Afghanistan arrived in strategic Iranian port on Wednesday morning.”
He added that the cargo will soon be delivered to Afghanistan via land borders.
Aghaei noted that the first batch of the humanitarian aid, consisting of 203 containers with a total weight of 5,000 tons, arrived in Chabahar in mid-April and was transferred to Afghanistan within 12 days.
According to the Embassy of India in Kabul, India is also gifting 5,00,000 tablets of HydroxyChloroquine to Afghanistan for health professionals and COVID-19 positive cases.
In 2016, Iran, India, and Afghanistan decided to jointly establish a trade route for land-locked Central Asian countries.
India has sent its first consignment of wheat to Afghanistan through Chabahar Port back, three years ago, in 2017.
Later on, in February 2019, the Afghanistan-Iran-India trade corridor for the trade between the two countries through Chabahar Port was officially inaugurated in presence of related officials.
- source : MNA, Irannews
