Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov.19/ Trend F.Milad/
Iran plans to transit 50 million tons of goods via its roads by the end of the fifth five-year economic development plan (2015), Iranian roads and urban development minister said on Monday.
Iran intends to increase its transit revenues and equate it to the nation's oil incomes as soon as possible, the IRNA News Agency quoted Ali Nikzad as saying.
Some 2.76 million tons of oil products were transited via Iran during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year which began on March 20, the Iranian deputy roads and urban development minister said on November 12.
The total amount of transited goods via Iran during the aforementioned period stood at some 6.7 million tons, showing a 22 per cent increase in comparison to the same time span the previous year, the Mehr News Agency quoted Shahriar Afandizadeh as saying.
"Some 92 per cent of the aforementioned amount was transited via roads while the other eight per cent was transited via the rail network," he added.
Afandizadeh named Turkey, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Afghanistan as the routes for transited goods.
More than 100 countries are currently transiting their goods via Iran," he explained.
"During the past four years, the transition of goods via Iran increased by 75 per cent," Afandizadeh concluded.