1st Batch of Indian Port Equipment Worth $8.5m Arrives in Chabahar

The first batch of India’s strategic equipment for loading and unloading cargos worth $8.5 million has arrived at Chabahar’s Shahid Beheshti Port, says Behrouz Aqaei, the head of Sistan-Baluchestan’s Ports and Maritime Organization. 
“The import of the equipment is part of the $85-million build, operate, transfer contract between Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran and an Indian investor company,” he was quoted as saying by IRNA, adding that the equipment will be used for the development of Phase I of Shahid Beheshti Port.
Two 140-ton mobile harbor cranes arrived at Chabahar Pport on Saturday and are being currently unloaded, DNA India reported on Sunday.
“Fast pacing the work on the crucial Chabahar Port, the Government of India has supplied the much-awaited first shipment of mobile harbor cranes to Iran. Two 140-ton mobile harbor cranes arrived at Chabahar Port on Saturday night and are being currently unloaded,” the report said, adding that India has supplied the cranes via an Italian company called Italgru.