Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 7/ Trend M. Moezzi
There are no unloaded ships docked at the Persian Gulf Imam Khomeini port, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reports an official as saying.
Denying reports of 12 ships docked at the Imam port with their goods still on board due to sanctions against Iran, Alireza Khojasteh, a deputy at the Khuzestan Province Ports and Maritime Organisation, said five million tons of grain has passed through the port this year. Iran's solar year ends on March 20.
In other comments Mr Khojasteh said the Imam Khomeini port in Iran's Khuzestan Province has the capacity to load and unload 35 million tons of goods and 1.1 million tons of petroleum. About 35 per cent of Iran's total operations to load and offload goods are done at the Imam port.
The Imam Khomeini port has the nominal capacity to handle 50 million tons of materials. It has an impact on 70 per cent of Iran's population centres and 90 per cent of grain imports are offloaded there and transported to the rest of the country.
So far this year 70 per cent of the port's operations have centred on non-petroleum products and the remaining 30 per cent have dealt with petroleum products.
Mr. Khojasteh said the port organisation's goal is to push its oil transit operations to more than two million tons by next year.