Iran’s first shipment of imported cars arrived in the country’s southern port of Lengeh last night, according to the spokesman of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade.
Omid Qalibaf said that the cars are now being unloaded.
He also noted that South Korea, Japan and China also have car shipments already loaded to be bound for Iran.
Last week, Qalibaf referred to Iran’s plans for imports of as many as 200,000 of cars within the next six months.
He said that 100,000 imported cars will be supplied to the Iranian market within the remaining three months of the current Iranian calendar year to March 20, with another 100,000 cars to be imported in the first three months of the next year.
He noted that the required hard currency needed for the imports of cars will be supplied from foreign resources.
The ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade said in a statement in early November that it hopes that the arrival of an expedient number of cars will leave a favorable impact on the Iranian car market.
Since the beginning of the new government under President Ebrahim Raisi in August 2021, one of the objectives of the ministry was to control the car market and resolve people's dissatisfaction with issues related to the market disturbances, the statement read.
For this purpose, one of the effective tools to narrow the gap between supply and demand has been the import of cars with the priority of providing cars to ordinary people, the statement added.