TEHRAN (MEHR - Trend )
A Shahid Rajaee Port Complex official here on Monday announced that a large ship with 9,012 twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU) capacity anchored at the port.
The ship which belongs to Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world's second largest shipping line, is the largest vessel that has ever entered Shahid Rajaee Port, said Hossein Cheraghi.
The vessel will unload 290 TEU containers and will load 465 TEU containers during its stop at the port, the official noted.
He added that the entry of such vessels will make the Shahid Rajaee Port the region's transshipment hub.