Tehran (Iran) -- Goods transited through Iran reached 4,485,300 tons in the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (started March 20, 2006), indicating 10.8 percent increase compared to the figure for the same period last year.

According to the Public Relation Department of Iran's Customs Administration, the total value of goods transited via Iran was $11.29 billion, showing a 25 percent rise from the figure for the same period a year earlier.

The shares of commodities transiting the country such as foodstuff, vehicles, fuels and other goods in terms of weight and value were 11 and 5.9, 1.9 and 7.7, 17.5 and 3.6 as well as 53.9 and 72.8 percent respectively.

Shahid Rajaei, Sarakhs, Bazargan, Bandar Anzali and Lotfabad customs offices transited 34.6, 19.5, 13.9, 8.1 and 6.5 percent of the commodities in terms of weight, making up 82.5 percent of the total transits, the report said.

Shahid Rajaei customs office ranked first by transiting 16.5 percent of total volume of goods.

It was followed by Dogharoun, Astara, Khosravi and Bazargan customs offices with 11.4, 11.1, 10.8 and 8 percent of total transits in the second to fifth positions, and some 57.9 percent of total commodities transited in the said period pertained to the five customs offices.

Some 21.7 percent of total volume of commodities transited via Iran entered from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which was the top country in this respect.