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Iran Transited 773,000 Tons of Cargo via Rail in 5-Month Period

mahla — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:57:16 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) The transit of goods from the country via the rail sector in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 to August 22, 2024) registered a 47 percent growth compared to last year’s corresponding period, it said.

According to the ministry’s website, 526,000 tons of goods had been transited from the country via rail in the first five months of the previous Iranian calendar year (March 21 to August 22, 2023).

The report added that more than 1 million tons of goods were transited from the country via rail sector in 2021.

Sarakhs and Astara border crossings accounted for the largest volume of the transited goods with 536,000 tons and 129,000 tons of goods transited from Sarakhs and Astara border crossing in this period, respectively.

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Iranian cargo ship capsizes in Bandar Abbas, all crew rescued

reporter 1222 — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:01:07 +0000

Th 90-meter long LS Star vessel completely overturned in the 25th quay of Shahid Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas on Tuesday.

The incident had no casualties, but three crew member were reported to have sustained injury. There were 14 crew members on board, all of whom of foreign nationalities, according to Director General of Ports and Maritime of Hormozgan, Afifipour, who was speaking to MNA correspondent a few hours after the incident.

The cargo ship was carrying 153 containers of Iran’s mineral and industrial goods, including potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, copper concentrate, industrial oil, and regulators. The ship was also carrying two containers of pistachios.

According to an official, the capsizing may be the result of lack of coordination between the ship’s officer and the contractor for loading and unloading.

Meanwhile, Afifipour told MNA that the causes of the accident are being investigated by a team of experts from the coastal disasters reconnaissance committee.

Operations to rescue the containers are underway.

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Cargo exports via Azarbaijan railways up by 1.5fold in nine months

reporter 1222 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:35:52 +0000

Director General of Azarbaijan Railways General Bureau Shapour Arsalani said that export volume of freight through provincial railways company registered a significant 1.5fold increase in nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21 – Dec. 21).

Given the above issue, exports of freight from railways of this province rose 1.5 times more as compared to the last year’s corresponding period, he reiterated.

He put the volume of cargo exported from this province at 57,810 tons.

The volume of discharging cargo in this province has increased 57 percent since the beginning of the current year up to the end of Iranian month of Azar (Dec. 21) as compared to the same period last year, Arsalani maintained.

He put the loading and unloading volume of freight in this period in this province at 942,940 and 469,471 tons, respectively, showing 35 and 57 percent hike.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Arsalani put the volume of freight transported in nine months of the current year at 757,806 tons, recording a significant 100 percent hike as compared to the same period last year.

A number of 1,583,906 passengers have been transported via provincial railway company since the beginning of the current year (March 21 – Dec. 21), registering a 42 percent hike as compared to the last year’s corresponding period.

He put the number of passengers transported by the provincial railways company in the nine months of the past Iranian calendar year in 1396 (March 21-Dec. 21, 2017) at 1,115,129.

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Iranian cargo train en route to Turkey derailed in NW Iran

reporter 1222 — Wed, 23 May 2018 15:30:04 +0000

An Iranian cargo train, heading to Turkey, ran off the tracks in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Azerbaijan.

Khoy governor Seyed Mohammad Abedi told reporters this morning that an Iranian cargo train was derailed on the way to Turkey at 11:30 local time after it ran into a landslide on the track.

According to Abedi, the diesel train and its six wagons were derailed and turned upside down near ‘Habash’ village.

The governor added that two train drivers were injured in the accident, while the train is seriously damaged.

He further said that paramedic groups have been dispatched to the scene and technical teams are clearing the railway to resume its activities.

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Cargo transported from Bandar Abbas, Chabahar to Central Asia

reporter 1222 — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:10:37 +0000

TEHRAN– An official in charge of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Hossein Ashouri said, “planning is underway to transport freight from Bandar Abbas and Chabahar to the Central Asian states.”

Member of Board of Directors of the company revealed the interest of Indian firms to invest in North-South corridor and said, “Islamic Republic of Iran has expressed his readiness to transport combined and rail cargo from Bandar Abbas and Chabahar to the Central Asian states.”

Turning to negotiations made between Iran and India over North-South corridor in the course of Iranian Roads Minister’s visit to New Delhi and added, “in this regard, three expert-level sessions were held in the presence of prominent Indian Forwarders’ Association to determine tariff rates and the way of activation of this corridor.”

The head of International Transport and Transit Committee of Railway Company added, “moreover the aforementioned subjects, talks were held in line with the activation of two companies and the mentioned association in Chabahar corridor (India, Iran and Afghanistan), Chabahar to the Central Asia and Bandar Abbas to the Central Asia.”

To conclude his remarks, Ashouri added, “it was agreed that negotiators should pay a visit from the abovementioned regions.”

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India to export container cargo to Russia via Iran from Jan

reporter 1222 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 06:35:37 +0000

TEHRAN- India will start export of container cargo to Russia via Iran from January 2018, S. Kumar, the commissioner of Indian Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), announced.

The official said this shipment will be done as India moves forward to operationalize international corridor INSTC, India Today reported.

The move, he said, would cut down cargo transport time by half to nearly 17 days, from the earlier 35 days, using just the sea route.

“India will shift its first export consignment via Bandar Abbas to Russia from mid-January. It will probably transit Iran, Azerbaijan and then reach Russia,” Kumar told reporters.

The Customs department has been receiving a lot of enquiries from different sectors for using this route, he said, adding that the route would help in saving money as well as time.

“This initiative will operationalize the INSTC,” Kumar said.

International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a multi-mode network of sea, rail, and road route for moving freight among India, Russia, Iran, Europe and Central Asia. The proposed 7,200-km long corridor is expected to increase trade connectivity among major cities of Mumbai, Moscow, Tehran, Baku, Bandar Abbas, Astrakhan and Bandar Anzali.

India also plans to send seven shipments of wheat to Afghanistan through Iran’s southeastern Chabahar Port by the end of January, Reuters has previously reported.

India launched a trade route to Afghanistan via Iran through shipping its first consignment of wheat to Afghanistan on October 29, bypassing longtime rival Pakistan.

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Police Seize Large Drug Cargo in Iran in Single Operation

reporter 1222 — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:00:20 +0000

TEHRAN – Police forces in Iran’s northern province of Qom seized a large cargo of opium in a single operation on Saturday.

Following an undercover operation and in joint operation with Tehran police, police forces confiscated around 500 kilograms of opium from a truck in the province of Qom on Saturday, provincial anti-narcotics police commander, Colonel Gholam Abbas Balfakeh said.

According to the commander, the haul of drugs was hidden under a cargo of particle boards in the truck, which came from the eastern provinces of the country.

Iran, which has a 900-kilometer common border with Afghanistan, has been used as the main conduit for smuggling Afghan drugs to narcotics kingpins in Europe.

Despite high economic and human costs, the Islamic Republic has been actively fighting drug-trafficking over the past three decades.

The war on drug trade originating from Afghanistan has claimed the lives of thousands of Iranian police forces over the past three decades.

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Cargo Line Opened between Qatar, Turkey via Iran

reporter 1222 — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:45:53 +0000

TEHRAN – Qatar has opened a land and sea cargo line with Iran and Turkey in a bid to reduce the Arab country’s cargo shipping costs by 80 percent, a report said.

Former editor-in-chief of Qatar’s al-Sharq newspaper, Jaber Al-Harmi, said via twitter that the Persian Gulf Arab state has opened a land and sea cargo line with Iran and Turkey, Middle East Monitor reported on Monday.

The tweet also included a video showing large trucks loaded with goods on their way to Qatar.

Qatar has extended new sea lines in the face of an air, land and sea blockade imposed by Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain.

The lines extend between the ports of Qatar to various destinations in Turkey, Kuwait, Oman, India and Pakistan.

Economists believe that the five shipping lines constitute an alternative for Doha in the face of sanctions imposed by its neighbors and also an outlet for its navigational and commercial movement in general.

Since June 5, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt have severed ties with Qatar and imposed punitive measures on the grounds that it supports terrorism, a charge that Doha denies.

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