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Iran expects rail transit of goods through its territory to boost

Business Materials 5 September 2014 11:24 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept.5

By Fatih Karimov - Trend:

Iran expects the transit of goods through the country by rail to boost in the current year (starts on March 21).

Iranian Railways official Hossein Ashouri said the proposed Istanbul-Islamabad cargo train will boost the volume of goods which are transited via Iran, the Fars news agency reported on September 5.

The Iranian rail network is connected with rail networks of Turkmenistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Ashouri noted that the lion's share of goods is transited through Iran to Central Asian countries.

The Istanbul-Islamabad train is an international freight train service between Islamabad, Pakistan and Istanbul, Turkey via Tehran, Iran. The train was launched on 14 August 2009 ona trial basis.

Iran's minister of roads and urban development, Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi said on Sept. 4 that Iran plans to boost its capacity of goods transit to 14 million tons per year by 2015.

Iranian Roads Maintenance Organization official Mohammad Javad Atrchian said on July 1 that over 3.48 million tons of goods were transited via Iran in spring 2014, 2.4 percent more compared with spring 2013.

The transited consignments mostly consisted of fuel, home appliances, cotton, construction materials and vehicles.

Iran earns some 14 trillion rials (about $437.5 million) annually through transiting goods via ports.

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