Alireza Mohammadi Karajiran, the director-general of the
province’s Ports and Maritime Department, said that the loading and unloading
of goods in the ports of the province rose 16.7 percent in the past year, from
its preceding year.
Of the mentioned 95 million tons, 56 million tons were
non-oil goods, and 39 million tons were oil products, the official announced.
Saying that 58,992 vessels entered the ports of Hormozgan
province in the past year, he said that loading and unloading operations in the
container sector of the ports reached 1.839 million twenty-foot equivalent
units (TEUs).
Based on the data released by Transport and Urban
Development Ministry, loading and unloading of goods in the ports of Iran rose
17 percent during the past year.
The ministry’s data show that loading and unloading of goods
in the country’s ports reached 152.91 million tons in the previous Iranian
calendar year, while the figure stood at 130.69 million tons in the preceding
year.
During the said year, loading and unloading operations in
the container sector reached 2.1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs)
with a weight of 24.57 million tons, which was 13.5 percent more than the 1.85
million TEUs in the Iranian calendar year 1399, the report said.
The loading and unloading of goods during the previous year
also grew by 12.8 percent in the dry bulk sector, while in the liquid bulk
sector the figure increased by 12.6 percent, in the general cargo sector rose
by 13.1 percent, and in the petroleum sector grew by 22.5 percent.