TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Managing Director of Sistan and Balouchestan Ports and Maritime Department General Behrouz Aqayee said on Sunday that Iran’s southeastern port of Chabahar has received its first consignment of port equipment worth $8.5 million from India as part of an agreement between the two countries.
Aqayee said that the first shipment including the first port equipment arrived in Iran’s only oceanic port, Chabahar, from India on Sunday, adding that the shipment includes strategic unloading and loading equipment for Chabahar port which will be used to activate the contract for equipment and operation of Shahid Beheshti port.
He said the Indian side is committed to supply the unloading and loading equipment based on a long-term contract for development of Shahid Beheshti port.
Aqayee emphasized that Indian investment in the port will not prevent other countries from participating in the development projects in the region.
The equipment in Southeastern strategic port of Chabahar has the capacity of loading 15,000 tons of goods per day.