Over 80 Million Tons of Goods Loaded, Unloaded in Iran’s Southern Ports in 9 Months
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The director general of Iran’s Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Department said that more than 80 million tons of various types of commodities have been loaded and unloaded from southern ports of this province between March 21 and December 22, 2023.
Elaborating on the performance and activities of ports in this southern province, Hossein Abbasnejad noted that 80,089,938 tons of oil and non-oil commodities were loaded and unloaded in ports of Hormozgan province in the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year, more than 53 million tons of which are related to the non-oil goods.
In this period, more than 36 million tons of non-oil goods were loaded at ports of this province, he said, adding that over 17 million tons of non-oil goods have been unloaded from the provincial ports.
He further pointed out that more than 29 million tons of non-oil goods were exported from the province in the first nine months of the current year, registering a 40 percent hike compared to last year’s corresponding period.
He put the cabotage of the non-oil goods from March 21 to December 22, 2023 in this province at more than eight million tons and added that five million tons of products were transited via ports of the province.