BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 31
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
In general, 37 trillion rials (about $880 million) worth of investments have been attracted in the Imam Khomeini port of Khuzestan Province (southwestern Iran), Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development and Chairman of the PMO, Mohammad Rastad said, Trend reports citing the organization’s portal.
The chairman stressed that these investments will be made by the private sector in the Imam Khomeini port.
Rastad added that a number of plants will be built with these investments. Thus, a plant on production of two million tons of sugar per year, a plant on processing of 1 million tons of crude oil annually, a plant on production of 900,000 liters of bio-ethanol fuel annually, a plant on production of 500,000 tons of animal and poultry feed per year and a plant on packaging of 350,000 tons of cooking oil a year will be built.
A total of 3.07 million tons of cargo were loaded and unloaded in the Imam Khomeini port in the 9th month of the current Iranian year (November 21 through December 20, 2020). About 1.53 million tons of the cargo were loaded and 1.54 million tons were unloaded.