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Mazut tops list of transited goods via Iran roads

Business Materials 27 May 2018 13:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, May 27

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Over 9.28 million tons of goods were transited through Iran's roads in the last fiscal year, ended March 20, registering a rise by 19 percent year-on-year, according to the latest data released by Iran’s Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization (RMTO).

About 30 percent of the transited goods (2.84 million tons) were oil products. The volume of the transited oil products is 56 percent more compared to the preceding fiscal year.

Mazut topped the list of transited goods in the 12-month period(2.15 million tons) with a 23 percent share from overall transited goods, followed by auto parts (309,200 tons), textile(262,000 tons), rice (236,000 tons), cotton (233,000 tons) and diesel (197,600 tons).

Tires (193,700 tons), passenger cars (181,300 tons), cigarettes (110,800 tons), various cars (109,600 tons), wheat (104,400 tons) and gasoline (99,300 tons) were other top transited goods.

Shahid Rajaee port was the top border point in terms of transiting goods (3.25 million tons or 35 percent of total transit) followed by Parvizkhan (15.6 percent or 1.45 million tons), Bazargan (10 percent), Bashmaq ( 10 percent), Shahid Bahonar (6 percent) and Sarakhs(4 percent) border checkpoints, according to the data.

The UAE was the main destination of the goods transited into Iran (80,136 trucks, 2.15 million tons), followed by Afghanistan (1.4 million tons) and Iraq (922,000 tons).

Iraq was the main source from where various products were transited to the UAE, meanwhile the Persian Gulf country was the top source of trucks carrying commodities to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Some 32 border checkpoints (including 10 ports) were involved in cargo transits in the period.

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