Cargo handling in Iran’s southern ports tops 80m tons in nine months
The director general of Iran’s Hormuzgan Ports and Maritime Department said that more than 80 million tons of commodities were loaded and unloaded from the southern ports during March 21-December 22, 2023.
Elaborating on the performance and activities of ports in the southern province, Hossein Abbasnejad noted that 80.089 million tons of oil and non-oil commodities were loaded and unloaded in ports of Hormuzgan Province in the first nine months of the current Iranian year, over 53 million tons of which are related to non-oil goods, IRNA reported.
In the period, more than 36 million tons of non-oil goods were loaded at the 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.