PMO News Portal –Reporting on the amount of import,
unloading and loading of basic commodities (non-container goods) in the largest
commercial port of the country, Alireza Mohammadi Karajiran stated: Since the
beginning of this year, 2 million 268 thousand 29 tons of basic commodities has
been unloaded, with wheat and edible oil had the highest share.
Karajiran mentioned vegetable oil, rice, corn, sugar,
soybean meal, fertilizer, wheat and barley as the main commodities that entered
Shahid Rajaei port carried by 46 ships and then transited to the destination
provinces by road and rail.
The director of Shahid Rajaei Port Special Economic Zone
announced that the amount of wheat unloaded as a strategic product in the
mentioned period was 798,240 tons.
Referring to the import of half a million tons of edible oil
since the beginning of this year (Iranian Calendar) to mid-November, Mohammadi
Karajiran said: the oil entered the port of Shahid Rajaei carried by 17 ships was
transferred to processing plants depending on market needs and stored in special
storage tanks in the port.