TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Director General of Port and Maritime Organization of Hormuzgan province Allah Morad Afifipour said on Monday that the country’s first quarter (based on the local calendar between March 21 and June 21) non-oil exports from the southern port of Shahid Rajaei have increased by 10 percent compared with corresponding period in the last year.
Export of oil and non-oil products from the Southern port of Shahid Rajaei rose up in the past three months of the local calendar year (started on March 21, 2019) compared with the preceding year, he said.
Oil and non-oil exports witnessed three and 10 percent growth respectively during the period, the official said.
Shahid Rajaei port is the biggest and the most equipped port of its kind that covers 80 percent of container operations in Iran.
As Afifipour said, about 19.9 million tons of oil and non-oil products have been loaded onto and offloaded from Shahid Rajaei Port during the past three months.
Meanwhile, some 1,047 vessels have operated to ship the merchandises from the port.
Also, an increasing trend has been reported from other Iranian customs gates in the same period.