Baku, Azerbaijan, June 4
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
The latest data released by Iran’s Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization (RMTO), shows that over 9.3 million tons of various goods were transited through Iran by 451,244 trucks in the last Iranian fiscal year, ended March 20, 2018.
The Iranian trucks have the main share in the transit. At least 304,886 trucks from the Islamic Republic involved in the transit to carry about 5.8 million tons of goods.
The share of the Iranian trucks was 68 percent of overall vehicles, with transiting some 63 percent of the cargos in terms of volume.
Further, some 53,698 trucks from Turkey transited over 1 million tons of goods through Iran in the 12-month period. Turkey’s share from the transit was 12 percent in terms of trucks number and 11 percent in terms of goods’ volume.
Iraqi trucks stood at the third place with a share of 10 percent. At least 45,664 vehicles from Iraq transited 1.26 million 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 last fiscal year. The table below shows the share of the top countries from goods transit through Iran (March 20, 2017 - 2018).
|
Country |
Trucks number |
Share (%) |
Cargo (tons) |
share (%) |
|
Iran |
304,886 |
67.57 |
5 ,827, 998 |
62.79 |
|
Turkey |
53,698 |
11.90 |
1, 052 ,214 |
11.34 |
|
Iraq |
45,664 |
10.12 |
1 ,263, 367 |
13.61 |
|
Afghanistan |
24,007 |
5.32 |
597 ,614 |
6.44 |
|
Azerbaijan |
14,275 |
3.16 |
362, 910 |
3.91 |
|
Turkmenistan |
2,652 |
0.59 |
70, 795 |
0.76 |
|
Tajikistan |
2,127 |
0.47 |
47, 088 |
0.51 |
|
Kyrgyzstan |
1,841 |
0.41 |
37, 768 |
0.41 |
|
Germany |
344 |
0.08 |
7,189 |
0.08 |
|
Russia |
228 |
0.05 |
4, 017 |
0.04 |
|
Pakistan |
195 |
0.04 |
4, 318 |
0.05 |
|
Kazakhstan |
114 |
0.03 |
2, 393 |
0.03 |
|
Georgia |
87 |
0.02 |
1, 798 |
0.02 |
|
Armenia |
44 |
0.01 |
630 |
0.01 |
|
Ukraine |
28 |
0.01 |
534 |
0.01 |
|
Uzbekistan |
20 |
0.00 |
446 |
0.00 |
|
Moldavia |
18 |
0.00 |
329 |
0.00 |
|
Total |
451,244 |
100,00 |
9, 281, 652 |
100,00 |
Other countries which had their trucks transit various goods through Iran included Belarus (7 trucks), Bulgaria (three), Netherlands (three), Romania (two) and Poland (one).
The volume of transited goods through Iran indicates an increase by 19 percent year-on-year.
About 2.84 million tons of transited goods were oil products, which is 56 percent more year-on-year.
Mazut topped the list of transited goods in the 12-month period.
In total, 2.15 million tons of mazut were transited through Iran (23 percent share from overall transited goods).
Auto parts (309,200 tons), textile (262,000 tons), rice (236,000 tons), cotton (233,000 tons) and diesel (197,600 tons) were other top transited goods.
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.