IRAN's biggest box port, Shahid Rajaee, has declared an annual 2018 throughput of 1.56 million TEU, according to the director general of Ports and Maritime Department of Hormozgan Province Allah-Morad Afifipour.
'The amount included 1.18 million TEU of full containers and 383,609 TEU of empty ones,' he said, reported the Tehran Times.
'In this period, 295,597 TEU of cargos were loaded at Shahid Rajaee, to be exported to different parts of the world and 326,267 TEU, containing imported goods, were unloaded,' he said, '97,690 TEU were transited and 206,982 TEU were transshipped in the said time via the port.'
The official previously announced that the annual loading and unloading capacity of Shahid Rajaee Port stands at 100 million tons.
'Some 80 million tons of cargo was loaded and unloaded at the port in the preceding year with minerals accounting for 20 million tons of the amount,' he said.
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'The amount included 1.18 million TEU of full containers and 383,609 TEU of empty ones,' he said, reported the Tehran Times.
'In this period, 295,597 TEU of cargos were loaded at Shahid Rajaee, to be exported to different parts of the world and 326,267 TEU, containing imported goods, were unloaded,' he said, '97,690 TEU were transited and 206,982 TEU were transshipped in the said time via the port.'
The official previously announced that the annual loading and unloading capacity of Shahid Rajaee Port stands at 100 million tons.
'Some 80 million tons of cargo was loaded and unloaded at the port in the preceding year with minerals accounting for 20 million tons of the amount,' he said.
WORLD SHIPPING