TEHRAN- More than 1.564 million TEUs of cargos have been loaded and unload at Iran’s largest container port, Shahid Rajaee, since the beginning of the present Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2018), the Director General of Ports and Maritime Department of Hormozgan Province Allah-Morad Afifipour told the reporters on Tuesday.

“The amount included 1.181 million TEUs of full containers and 383,609 TEUs of empty ones,” he said.

“In this period, 295,597 TEUs of cargos were loaded at Shahid Rajaee, to be exported to different parts of the world and 326,267 TEUs, containing imported goods, were unloaded,” he added, “Some 297,690 TEUs of commodities were transited and 206,982 TEUs were transshipped in the said time via the port.”

The official previously announced that the annual loading and unloading capacity of Shahid Rajaee Port stands at 100 million tons.

“Some 80 million tons of cargos were loaded and unloaded at the port in the preceding year with minerals accounting for 20 million tons of the amount,” he said then.

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