BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 15. The volume of cargo loaded and unloaded at Iran’s Shahid Rajaee port in the Hormozgan Province (southern Iran), increased by 14 percent for the first month of the current Iranian year (March 21 through April 20, 2023), compared to the same month in the last year, Trend reports via the statistics of Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO).
Overall, 7.2 million tons of cargo were loaded and unloaded at the Shahid Rajaee port in the 1st month. Of this, 4.12 million tons were loaded and about 3.1 million tons were unloaded.
Also, 3.74 million tons of cargo were exported, and 959,000 tons were imported through the Shahid Rajaee port over the 1st month.
More than 171,000 tons of cargo were loaded and 325,000 tons were unloaded at the port for transit during the reporting month. Furthermore, 144,000 tons of cargo were loaded and approximately 1.69 million tons were unloaded at the port for cabotage during the 1st month.
Within the 1st month, about 69,900 tons of cargo were loaded and 75,700 tons were unloaded in this port for transshipment.
At the same time, 1,560 tons of cargo were loaded, and 35,900 tons were unloaded in the port for other purposes.
Nearly 184,000 tons of essential products, 704,000 tons of metal products, about 1.83 million tons of construction and mining materials, and 5,270 tons of equipment, vehicles, and spare parts were loaded and unloaded at the Shahid Rajaee port in the 1st month of the current Iranian year.
Moreover, about 160,000 tons of chemicals, 6,380 tons of leather goods, clothing, fibers, paper, and wood materials, 5,070 tons of small and assorted products, about 1.65 million tons of container products, and approximately 2.7 million tons of crude oil and oil products were loaded and unloaded in this port within the mentioned month.
In total, 11.9 million tons of cargo were loaded and unloaded in Iranian ports in the 1st month of the current Iranian year. Of this, 5.22 million tons were loaded and 6.68 million tons were unloaded. This is a decrease of 0.7 percent compared to the same month last Iranian year.
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