BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 2. Car transit through Iran’s Bandar Lengeh port in Hormozgan Province (southern Iran), increased by 50 percent, since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2023), compared to the same period last year, Director of Hormozgan Province Ports and Maritime Department Morteza Salari said, Trend reports.
According to him, 82,075 cars were transited to Central Asian countries and Iraq via Iran’s Bandar Lengeh port within the mentioned period.
The director added that cars were brought to the port by 269 ships and transited to Iraq, Afghanistan and Central Asian countries.
Salari noted that transit vehicles were delivered by 13,679 trucks from Bandar Lengeh to the relevant destinations.
“In total, approximately 194,000 tons of cargo were transited from the western ports of Iran's Hormozgan Province during the reporting period,” he said.
The Bandar Lengeh port in Iran's Hormozgan Province is considered the second most important port after Bandar Abbas port.
Meanwhile, nearly 284,000 tons of cargo were loaded and unloaded at the Bandar Lengeh port in the 4th month of the current Iranian year (June 22 through July 22, 2023), which is an increase of 43.4 percent compared to the same month last Iranian year.
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