Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 30
By Umid Niayesh – Trend:
The latest data released by Iran’s Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization (RMTO), shows that over 6.808 million tons of various goods were transited through Iran by 333,679 trucks in the first nine months of the current Iranian fiscal year (March 20, Dec. 21, 2017).
The Iranian trucks have the main share in the transit. At least 221,901 trucks from the Islamic Republic involved in the transit to carry about 4.182 million tons of goods.
The share of the Iranian trucks was 66.5 percent of overall vehicles, with transiting some 61 percent of the cargos in terms of volume.
Further, some 41,322 trucks from Turkey transited 804,195 tons of goods through Iran in the 9-month period. Turkey’s share from the transit was 12.4 percent in terms of trucks number and 11.8 percent in terms of goods’ volume.
Iraqi trucks stood at the third place with a share of 10.3 percent. At least 34,441 vehicles from Iraq transited 950,665 tons of goods through the Islamic Republic territory in the period, which makes 14 percent of the carried cargo.
Trucks from 22 countries were involved in the transit of goods via Iran in the 9-month period. The table below shows the share of the top countries from goods transit through Iran (March 20-Dec.21, 2017).
|
Country |
Trucks number |
Share (%) |
Cargo (tons) |
share (%) |
|
Iran |
221,901 |
66.50 |
4,181,687 |
61.42 |
|
Turkey |
41,322 |
12.38 |
804,195 |
11.81 |
|
Iraq |
34,441 |
10.32 |
950,665 |
13.96 |
|
Afghanistan |
18,709 |
5.61 |
464,472 |
6.82 |
|
Azerbaijan |
11,245 |
3.37 |
283,841 |
4.17 |
|
Tajikistan |
1,494 |
0.45 |
33,341 |
0.49 |
|
Turkmenistan |
2,454 |
0.74 |
47,394 |
0.70 |
|
Kyrgyzstan |
1,374 |
0.41 |
28,039 |
0.41 |
|
Germany |
227 |
0.07 |
4,668 |
0.07 |
|
Russia |
197 |
0.06 |
3,478 |
0.05 |
|
Georgia |
91 |
0.03 |
1,886 |
0.03 |
|
Kazakhstan |
76 |
0.02 |
1,586 |
0.02 |
|
Pakistan |
39 |
0.01 |
748 |
0.01 |
|
Armenia |
39 |
0.01 |
583 |
0.01 |
|
Ukraine |
25 |
0.01 |
469 |
0.01 |
|
total |
333,679 |
100.00 |
6,807,911 |
100 |
Other countries which had their trucks transit various goods through Iran included Uzbekistan (15 trucks), Moldavia (16 trucks), Belarus (5 trucks), Bulgaria (three), Netherlands (three), Romania (two) and Poland (one).
The volume of transited goods through Iran indicates an increase by 20 percent year-on-year.
About 1.99 million tons of transited goods were oil products (65 percent more year-on-year) and 4.81 million tons were non-oil products.
Mazut topped the list of transited goods in the 9-month period. In total, 1.489 million tons of mazut were transited through Iran (21.9 percent share from overall transited goods).
Car parts (214,000 tons), textile (201,000 tons), rice (169,000 tons), cotton (159,000 tons) and diesel (157,500 tons) were other top transited goods.
The UAE was the main destination of the goods transited into Iran (56,077 trucks, 1.5 million tons).
Iraq was the main source from where various products were transited to the UAE.
Some 32 border checkpoints (including 10 ports) were involved in cargo transits in the period.