During his visit to the province, Jahangiri ordered the
beginning of the projects for construction of a Maritime Rescue Coordination
Center (MRCC) substation, the full radio coverage of the province’s coasts, a
project for establishing firefighting services and drip irrigation systems at
Shahid Kalantari, Shahid Beheshti and residential dormitories of the Chabahar
port, as well as the investment project for the construction of storage tanks
for petroleum (petrochemical) products in Shahid Beheshti port.
Over 180 billion rials (about $4.28 million) was invested in
the MRCC station project, the radio coverage project is going to be completed
with 110 billion rials (about $2.6 million) of funding, some 550 billion rials
(about $13.09 million) is allocated for the firefighting and irrigation
systems, while 8.169 trillion rials (about $194.5 million) is invested for the
construction of the petrochemical storage facilities.
Upon his arrival in Chabahar on Wednesday evening, the
official also inaugurated the first phase of Tang Fishing Port in Konarak
County which was completed with 1.27 trillion rials (about $30.2 million) of
investment.
He further visited the new town of Tis, Makran
Agro-Industrial Complex, some of the province’s steel production complexes,
Chabahar Petrochemical Park, and Shahid Beheshti Port’s development project.
On the sidelines of his visit to the mentioned sites, the
First Vice President announced the government's serious determination to
accelerate the development of Makran coasts and said: "Development of
Makran coasts has been on the government's agenda for some time and recently
the government has made some changes in the Makran Coastal Development
Secretariat to accelerate the projects in this region.
He further noted that 68 projects worth 840 trillion rials
(about $20 billion) have been considered for the development of Makran coasts
in Sistan-Balouchestan province.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Jahangiri mentioned the
Chabahar-Zahedan railway project as one of the major steps for the development
of the mentioned port and said, the National Development Fund (NDF) has
allocated $300 million for the completion of this project.