BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 18. Cargo transit through Iranian roads decreased by 10 percent for the 1st month of the current Iranian year (March 21 through April 20, 2023), compared to the same month in the last year, Trend reports.
Within the 1st month, a total of 790,000 tons of cargo were transited through Iranian.
Meanwhile, in the same month of the last Iranian year, the figure stood at 874,000 tons.
Overall, 37 million tons of cargo were transported via Iranian roads in the first month of the current Iranian year, which is an increase of 9 percent compared to the 34 million tons in the 1st month of the last Iranian year (March 21 through April 20, 2022).
In addition, 9 million passengers were transported through roads in Iran during the 1st month of the current Iranian year. This is a decrease of 10 percent compared to 10 million passengers in same month last year.
Currently, there are 2,793 km of controlled-access highways, 45,170 km of highways and free-ways in operation in Iran.
In total, more than 12.9 million tons of cargo were transited through Iran in the last Iranian year (March 21, 2022, through March 20, 2023).
This is an increase of 2.2 percent compared to the preceding year (March 21, 2021 through March 20, 2022).
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