International Road Transport Union (IRU) Secretary General Umberto de Pretto has stressed the key role of the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran as “a transit hub in the region”, noting that “around 70% of Iran’s imports, exports and transit pass through Bandar Abbas.”
Deputy Head of Iran Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization Mohammad Teymouri said on Sunday that international transit via Iranian soil nearly doubled over the past Iranian calendar year to late March.
Iran’s Minister of Road and Urban Development Rostam Qassemi said on Monday that his country stands ready to help meet the transit needs of eight landlocked counties of the region.
Iranian Foreign Ministry has announced that the follow up of the ministry led to Turkmenistan’s permission for transit trucks to pass through the country to go from Iran to Uzbekistan.
Iranian Minister of Road and Urban Development Rostam Qassemi left Tehran for Moscow on Tuesday night for transportation discussions.
Transit of cargos through Iran has increased 68% in the past Iranian year (ended on March 20) despite the US sanctions, the Iranian government’s figures indicated.
Iran is seeking to initiate a new strategic transport corridor through an agreement with Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Bulgaria, and Greece to link the Indian Ocean and East Asia to Europe.
Road transit of commodities via Iranian soil in the first three quarters of the fiscal year (March 21- Dec 21) has increased 116% compared to figures from the corresponding period of the preceding year, according to a senior transportation official.
The monthly volume of foreign freight transit through Iran has registered a record.
A senior UAE official is due to visit Tehran this week to discuss the inauguration of a corridor linking the UAE to Turkey via Iranian soil, according to the director of Transit and International Transportation Affairs Bureau of Iran Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization Javad Hedayati.