TEHRAN, Feb. 8 (MNA) -- In the first 10 months of the current Iranian calendar year (began March 21, 2007), the northern Iranian port of Noshahr witnessed a 94 percent rise in loading and unloading operations compared to the same period in the previous year, the managing director of the Ports and Shipping Department of Mazandaran and Golestan Provinces announced on Friday.

Nabi Seidpur said that it took two Dutch and Belgian companies nine years (1930-1939) to construct and commission the port, ISNA reported.
“Closeness to Tehran, vicinity to airport, and having the most equipped passenger terminal among the Caspian Sea’s Littoral States are the distinctive features of Noshahr port,” the official noted.
Seidpur added that the port, measuring 25,000 hectares area, has the capacities for transaction of 2 million tons of commodities and one million ton of oil. Also, it has the capacity for 2,500 tons of cargo unloading.
Noshahr is a port city in the province of Mazandaran in northern Iran.
The city has been slow to industrialize due to environmental considerations and having an already vibrant economy based on Tourism, Ship transport and Agriculture, nevertheless there are local Food processing, Timber Treatment and Steel industries.
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