Exporting the country's first shipment of mineral stones through Chabahar port

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Tehran: The deputy for port and economic affairs of the General Administration of Ports and Maritime Affairs of Sistan and Baluchistan province of the Islamic Republic of Iran, told IRNA yesterday on Thursday: By establishing direct container transport services from Afghanistan to Chabahar, The time and cost of transporting goods through Chabahar port and Milk border terminal has been reduced and this has increased the attractiveness of transporting transit goods on this route.

He added: Today, the first transit cargo, including 12 trucks carrying Afghan transit stone for export to China in a container, arrived from Nimroz province through Milk border to Shahid Beheshti port in Chabahar and was sent directly to China through this port.

The deputy of port and economic affairs of the General Administration of Ports and Maritime Affairs of Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran has said: Chabahar strategic port connected to the open waters of the Indian Ocean has a good location for trade, transportation, transit and transshipment of goods and is the best and least The most expensive way of trade and transit to the countries of Central Asia, especially the neighboring country of Afghanistan.

While emphasizing that Chabahar port is the best opportunity for Afghan investors, he stated: Chabahar port is located as one of the important ports in the south of Iran and in the northern part of the Oman Sea, and due to its strategic location and access to international open waters, it has a special place in Iran has exchanges with other countries in the region.

This Iranian official stated: Chabahar port with the annual unloading and loading capacity of more than eight million and 500 thousand tons is a unique opportunity for investors and businessmen of the friendly and neighboring country of Afghanistan.

Pointing out that in Chabahar port, unloading and loading of goods was mostly in bulk, but in the last one year, container transportation has been added to the capacity of this port, he added: With the addition of this capacity to Chabahar, three shipping lines from this port It has been launched to China, India and the port of Jebel Ali in the UAE, and container shipping operations have increased significantly.

The deputy of port and economic affairs of the General Administration of Ports and Maritime Affairs of Sistan and Baluchistan has stated: the advantage of Chabahar is reducing the time and cost of transporting goods from China and India to Jabal Ali port, and now it takes 2 and 12 days to transport goods from India and China to Chabahar, respectively. kills Indian transit goods reach Nimroz Afghanistan within 2 days from Chabahar, which is the shortest transit time in this region.

He continued: The goods from China will arrive in Chabahar within 12 days, where they will be unloaded and transported to Bandar Abbas and from there to Jabal Ali. This process takes approximately 12 to 17 days, while if the goods are shipped directly from China to Bandar Abbas, at least one week should be in the receiving and unloading queue. Therefore, by transferring goods from China and India to Chabahar and then to Bandar Abbas and from there to Jebel Ali, the transportation time and cost are significantly reduced. It also takes 45 days to directly transport goods from China and India to Jebel Ali.

He pointed out that with the increase in transit and unloading of goods at Chabahar port, hundreds of cars will transport cargo from this port to Iran or to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan every day, and with Chabahar's rail connection, the cost of transportation will be significantly reduced compared to road transportation.

He stated that the unloading and loading operations of container goods in Shahid Beheshti port of Chabahar increased by 155% last year with 66 thousand containers and this year we plan to increase this amount to 100 thousand TEU containers, he said: Chabahar port is an important, strategic and oceanic port of the country. It is considered that it can accommodate wide ships.

The deputy of port and economic affairs of the General Administration of Ports and Maritime Affairs of Sistan and Baluchistan said: Not every port can accept wide-bodied ships, and today we accept ships of 120,000 tons of goods in Shahid Beheshti Port of Chabahar.

He added: Chabahar port is the closest point in the country to access countries such as India and China, which are the population center of the world, and for example, we are 12 days away from China, and this is a special advantage of Chabahar for moving goods and containers, and the time Reduces load transfer.

You have said that due to Pakistan's constant disruption of Pakistan and seizure of the country's businessmen's property in the country's ports, in recent years, the businessmen of the country have been using Chabahar port more.