Bushehr non-oil exports hit 8m tons

February 10, 2010 - 0:0

TEHRAN -- Some 8 million tons of non-oil goods (including petrochemicals) worth around $4.175 billion have been exported from Bushehr Province in the first ten months of current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2009).

The amount shows 11 percent increase in terms of value and 30 percent rise in terms of volume compared to the previous year’s figure, the Mehr News Agency reported.
Some 580,000 tons of industrial goods such as petrochemicals, iron, and steel, as well as 8,387 tons of mineral goods have been exported in the mentioned period.
Meanwhile, some 1.652 million tons of goods worth nearly $1.847 billion have been imported via the province in the mentioned period