Iranian Ports Throughput Reaches 122m Tons of Goods in Ten Months

First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri said a total of 122 million tons of goods were handled at Iranian ports during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year (March 20-Jan. 19).
Speaking during a visit to Imam Khomeini Port in the southern Khuzestan Province, Jahangiri didn’t say how the volume of throughput fared compared with last year’s corresponding period, Fars News Agency reported on Saturday.
A total of 9.13 million tons of goods were loaded and unloaded at Iranian ports in the ninth month of the current Iranian year (Nov. 21-Dec. 20, 2020), indicating an 18.8% decline compared with the same month of the year before, Tasnim News Agency cited the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran as reporting. 
Loading and unloading of essential goods, however, increased by 23.4% during the month under review to stand at 1.84 million tons. 
Those of metals increased by 21.2%, while those of construction materials and minerals decreased 17.5%, machinery 35.8%, fertilizers and chemicals 28.4%, leather 9.4%, containerized cargo 85.98% and petroleum products 4.6% year-on-year.   
Jahangiri described Imam Khomeini as “one of the most important ports of Iran and the main hub of essential goods imports”.