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As the country’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) reported, 111,806,313 tons of commodities were loaded and unloaded in the ports in the first half of the current Iranian year.

Of the mentioned figure, 74,415,327 tons were related to loading, and 37,392,654 tons were related to unloading.

The loading of goods in the mentioned period also increased by nine percent as compared to the figure for the previous year’s same six months.

During the said period, loading and unloading operations in the container sector reached 1,432,672 TEUs, which was five percent more than the 1,284,604 TEUs in the first six months of the past year.

While Iran is combating the U.S. unilateral sanctions on its economy, the country’s ports as the major gates of exports and imports play a significant role in this battle. This role makes all-out support to ports and more development of them serious and vital.

Such necessity has led the government to define projects for more development of the ports and also take some measures to encourage investment making in ports, in addition to facilitating the loading and unloading of goods, especially basic commodities, there.

It is worth mentioning that Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization has defined a high number of projects to develop and improve the country’s ports, as the country aims to double the capacity of its ports in the course of five years.

According to the PMO, the capacity of the country’s ports has increased from 180 million tons in the Iranian calendar year 1392 (ended in March 2014) to 250 million tons in 1399 (ended in March 2021).

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During the conference, which was on the occasion of World Maritime Day, the official said that the PMO has held many sessions with the neighboring countries as well as India and took many follow-up measures to facilitate trade with those countries which has also led to the rising trend of transit via Iran.

According to a report released during the press conference, the loading and unloading of goods in the ports of the country has risen 4.8 percent during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-September 22), as compared to the same period of time in the past year.

Based on the mentioned report, 109.733 million tons of goods were loaded and unloaded in the ports of Iran during the first half of this year, while the figure was 104.698 million tons in the first half of the previous year.

As reported, loading and unloading of non-oil products stood at 54.777 million tons in the six-month of this year, up 0.8 percent from 54.366 million tons in the same time span of the previous year.

In terms of oil products, this year’s figure was 54.955 million tons, rising 9.2 percent from 50.331 million tons in the past year.

For the container sector, a growth of 8.2 percent was achieved, as 1.273 million TEUs were loaded and unloaded in the first half of this year, while the figure was 1.176 million TEUs in the first half of the past year.

Infrastructure development being highly paid attention

Elsewhere in his remarks, the PMO head said that his organization is paying serious attention to the development of infrastructure in the ports as well as the development of human resources.

“We have defined projects worth 69 trillion rials (about $250 million) from the PMO’s budget for the establishment of proper infrastructure in the ports which will worth 100 trillion rials (about $350 million)”, the official stated.

He also announced that 33.5 trillion rials (about $120 million) of investment has been attracted since the year start.

Safaei also mentioned the PMO’s supporting the knowledge-based companies and said that these companies have managed to achieve the technical knowledge for the domestic manufacturing of 768 types of marine and port equipment.

Among the outstanding measures recently taken by the PMO, the head of organization also referred to launching a liner between the ports of Iran, Kazakhstan and Russia for the first time and said that 20 vessels are operating in this line.

PMO’s major measures in line with World Maritime Day’s motto 

The head of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization further referred to the motto of this year’s World Maritime Day, which is New Technologies for Greener Shipping, and mentioned three major actions of his organization in line with this motto as:

– Preserving the environment through producing low-sulfur fuel

– Instruction for scrapping the vessels

– Using new energies such as wind and wave

He also referred to the active presence of Iran in the sessions of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and said that the representatives of our country have always played effective roles in the decisions made in these meetings.

Addressing the same press conference, which was also attended by the PMO deputies, Jalili Eslami, the deputy for ports affairs, put the current capacity of the country’s ports at over 270 million tons and said that the figure is planned to reach about 300 million tons by the Iranian calendar year 1404 (begins in March 2025).

While Iran is combating the U.S. unilateral sanctions on its economy, the country’s ports as the major gates of exports and imports play a significant role in this battle. This role makes all-out support to ports and more development of them serious and vital.

Such necessity has led the government to define projects for more development of the ports and also take some measures to encourage investment making in ports, in addition to facilitating loading and unloading of goods, especially basic commodities, there.

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According to a report by the Transport and Urban Development Ministry, 28 million tons of the mentioned commodities were non-oil goods and the rest were oil-related products.

Also, 507,000 TEUs of container cargoes were unloaded and loaded at the country’s commercial ports during the mentioned three months, while, 11 million tons of non-oil exports, transiting over 62.1 million tons of non-oil goods, and the transshipment of 990,000 tons of non-oil commodities were also carried out by the Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) as one of the organizations under the Ministry of Transport and Urban Development during this period.

Meanwhile, as previously reported, loading and unloading of goods in the ports of Iran rose 10.7 percent during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-October 22), as compared to the same period in the previous year.

According to PMO’s Ports Affairs Director Ravanbakhsh Behzadian, loading and unloading of goods at the country’s commercial ports reached 82.24 million tons in the mentioned period, while the figure stood at 74.31 million tons in the past year’s same time span.

During the said seven months, unloading and loading operations in the container sector reached 11.09 million tons, for dry bulk the figure stood at 26.56 million tons, in liquid bulk the figure was 2.56 million tons, while for general cargo (general and miscellaneous goods) it was 11.46 million tons and for the petroleum products loading and unloading volume amounted to 30.57 million tons, Behzadian said.

He noted that the loading and unloading operations in the dry bulk sector grew by 14.5 percent in the mentioned period compared to the last year’s same time span, while in the liquid bulk sector the figure increased by 27.5 percent, in the general cargo sector the growth was 8.8 Percent and the petroleum sector also experienced a growth of 17.1 percent compared to the same period last year.

While Iran is combating the U.S. unilateral sanctions on its economy, the country’s ports as the major gates of exports and imports play some significant role in this battle. This role makes all-out support to ports and more development of them serious and vital.

Such necessity has led the government to define projects for more development of the ports and also take some measures to encourage investment making in ports, in addition, to facilitate loading and unloading of goods, especially basic commodities, there.

It is worth mentioning that PMO has defined a high number of projects to develop and improve the country’s ports, as the country aims to double the capacity of its ports in a course of five years.

According to the Ports and Maritime Organization, the capacity of the country’s ports has increased from 180 million tons in the Iranian calendar year 1392 (ended in March 2014) to 250 million tons in the previous calendar year.

The total capacity of the country’s ports is expected to reach 280 million tons by the end of the current fiscal year (late March 2022).

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Addressing the first virtual exhibition of Iran and Oman on Monday, Gholam-Hossein Shafei said that virtual exhibition is an opportunity to introduce capabilities, potentialities and products of Iran and Oman.

He went on to say that virtual exhibition of Iran and Oman is an opportunity to showcase capabilities, potentials and latest products, technologies used in industrial and production sectors of the two countries.

This opportunity created should be used in the best way possible and relations between the two countries should not be limited to commercial relations (buying and selling goods), rather, creating a space for exchange of new ideas and thoughts with the approach of creating innovative ideas in the field of joint ventures and establishing long-term economic relations should be taken into serious consideration between the two countries of Iran and Oman.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Shafei pointed to COVID-19 pandemic and said that holding this virtual exhibition using world’s most modern technologies under the coronavirus pandemic, which has severely affected trade and business activities at the international level, indicates firm determination of Iranian and Omani officials in line with developing and promoting trade-industrial ties between the two countries.

He invited Omani companies and exhibitors present at the exhibition and also Omani economic agents and investors to visit the exhibition in order to get acquainted with the potentials and capabilities of Iran.

ICCIMA chairman also added that the Islamic Republic of Iran has high capabilities to increase industrial and commercial investments.

Shafei also noted that the Iranian market provides the necessary ground for cooperation between the two countries’ private sectors as two complementary parts.

He also called for launching an investment committee by the joint chamber of commerce of the two states for identifying the profitable projects for their implementation.

Shafei also said that the re-export of Iranian goods via Oman and developing transit and port cooperation is one of the most important issues for bilateral cooperation.

He added that fortunately the Omani government is studying the assessment of Iranian ships in Oman’s ports and in case it is approved, it can have positive effect on expansion of economic exchanges between the two countries and on using the advantages of free zones for bilateral trade.

He expressed hope holding such events would present practical solutions for expansion of trade between the two countries.

Meanwhile addressing the event, Chairman of Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) Mr. Reza bin al-Saleh pointed to the trade volume of Iran and Oman and said the figure stood around $400m last year, adding that Oman is trying to expand its ties with Iran in all spheres and for this reason the country has signed MoUs with Iran in different fields like air transportation. He added that holding this virtual event is in line with developing relations in all fields.

Saleh then said Oman has encouraged Iranian economic activists to enter its market and it tries to create a good and diverse climate economically for the private sector for sharing experiences. He reiterated that Oman welcomes the presence of Iranian investors for investment in Oman and implementing the joint project because Oman seeks growth in economic relations and foreign investment and therefore it welcomes any investment.

He added that Oman is keen for cooperation and foreign investment in the fields of mines, paper industry, chemicals, metal and non-metal industries, transportation, recycling and construction materials.

Then Chairman of Iran-Oman Joint Chamber Mohsen Zarrabi pointed to the good and amicable ties between the two states and said the pandemic made Iran and Oman hold this virtual exhibition.

He said Oman’s imports last year stood at $24b while Iran’s share of this figure was $438m, just 1.8 percent of the total imports.

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According to PMO’s Ports Affairs Director Ravanbakhsh Behzadian, loading and unloading of goods at the country’s commercial ports reached 58.99 million tons in the mentioned period, while the figure stood at 51.73 million tons in the past year’s same five months.

During the said five months, unloading and loading operations in the container sector reached 8.66 million tons, for dry bulk the figure stood at 17.77 million tons, in liquid bulk the figure was 1.94 million tons, while for general cargo (general and miscellaneous goods) it was 8.37 million tons and for the petroleum products loading and unloading volume amounted to 22.24 million tons, Behzadian said.

He noted that the loading and unloading operations in the dry bulk sector grew by six percent in the mentioned period compared to the last year’s same time span, while in the liquid bulk sector the figure increased by 47.9 percent, in the general cargo sector the growth was 19.4 Percent and the petroleum sector also experienced a growth of 22.6 percent compared to the same period last year.

While Iran is combating the U.S. unilateral sanctions on its economy, the country’s ports as the major gates of exports and imports play some significant role in this battle. This role makes all-out support to ports and more development of them serious and vital.

Such necessity has led the government to define projects for more development of the ports and also take some measures to encourage investment making in ports, in addition, to facilitate loading and unloading of goods, especially basic commodities, there.

It is worth mentioning that PMO has defined a high number of projects to develop and improve the country’s ports, as the country aims to double the capacity of its ports in a course of five years.

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According to Mohammad Rastad, some 6.876 trillion rials (about $163 million) plus 87.9 million euros has been invested in the said projects, of which about 382 billion rials (about $9.05 million) has been provided by the private sector.

Of these 16 projects, two projects have been carried out by the private sector investors in Imam Khomeini port and other projects have been implemented by the Ports and Maritime Organization, the official explained.

“These projects are in various fields including infrastructure, buildings, vessels, port equipment, maritime safety, port security, maritime transport facilitation, and maritime reference buildings,” he added.

According to Rastad, the mentioned projects are located in Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Bushehr, and Mazandaran provinces.

Six of the projects will be inaugurated in Hormozgan Province, including a wharf post, three oil wharf posts, a vessel, a hyper-suction dredger vessel, a marine reference building, and a fire alarm system.

Projects in Khuzestan province also include multi-purpose warehouses for storage of goods, a hyper-suction dredger vessel.

A 60-ton mobile crane, a sailors club building (in Amirabad), a fire station, a corn flour and concentrate factory, and a CCTV and electronic protection system are among the projects that will be inaugurated in Mazandaran Province, according to Rastad.

Iranian Transport Ministry has been taking serious measures for supporting development projects in the country’s ports and in this regard the ministry has been cooperating with domestic companies for supplying the equipment and machinery needed in such projects.

Earlier this year, Transport Minister Mohammad Eslami had announced that the capacity of the country’s commercial ports is going to be increased to 500 million tons over the next five years, to make Iran one of the biggest trade hubs in the region.

Also in April, Rastad said that his organization plans to take all the necessary measures for supporting the companies active in various maritime sectors during the current Iranian calendar year (began on March 21).

“In line with the current year’s motto which is “Production: support and the elimination of obstacles”, PMO has put it on the agenda to provide necessary supports for producers in order to facilitate the process of import and export of goods in the country’s ports,” Rastad said.

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