Decline in Mazandaran’s Busiest Port Throughput

A total of $20 million worth of non-oil commodities were exported to the Caspian Sea littoral countries from the northern Mazandaran Province’s Amirabad Port during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 20-Dec. 20), which is one-fourth of the volume exported over the similar period of last year.
Director General of Amirabad Port Amir Jamshidi blamed the decline on the Covid-19 pandemic, which closed down many businesses and industrial units producing export goods in the province.
“Over the same nine months, 1.33 million tons of goods worth $4.76 billion were imported into Amirabad Port from Russia and the other Caspian Sea littoral countries, showing a 38% and 35% decline compared with the corresponding period of last year,” he was quoted as saying by IRNA.