loading and unloading of goods in the country’s ports
reached 127.631 million tons in the mentioned period, while the figure stood at
106.453 million tons in the past year’s same time span.
During the said ten months, unloading and loading operations
in the container sector reached 1.78 million twenty-foot equivalent units
(TEUs), 18 percent more than 1.503 million TEUs in the first ten months of the
previous year, the report said.
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 (ended in March 2021).
The total capacity of the country’s ports is expected to
reach 280 million tons by the end of the current fiscal year.