A total of 194,362 tons of commodities have been exported from Amirabad Port in the northern Mazandaran Province since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21), showing a 33% rise compared with the similar period of last year, the deputy head for ports and economic affairs with Amirabad Port and Maritime General Office said on Saturday.
“Our main exports included mineral products, construction material, agricultural products, dairy, different kinds of metal, wood and particles, industrial equipment, fittings and oil products, which headed to the littoral countries of Caspian Sea,” Mohammad Ali Mousapour was also quoted as saying by the news portal of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.
The official noted that transits from this northern port grew by a whopping 256% over the same period.
Mousapour said that at present, Amirabad Port accounts for 47% and 46% of the overall throughput and exports respectively in the north of the country.
A total of 2.4 million tons of commodities were loaded and unloaded in Amirabad Port in the northern province of Mazandaran during the last Iranian year (March 2020-21), according to the director general of the port.
“Close to 1.9 million tons of the overall sum pertained to unloading [imports] of goods and nearly 500,000 tons to loading [exports],” Mohammad Ali Asl-Saeidipour was quoted as saying by the news portal of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.
The official noted that the throughput was carried via 650 vessels over the period.
“Container loading and unloading in this northern ports stood at 918 TEUs,” he said.
Saeidipour added that rail transport to and from Amirabad Port over the period reached close to 70,000 tons, showing a 104% upsurge compared with the year before.
Mazandaran has three ports, namely Amirabad, Noshahr and Fereydounkenar, with the first being the most active in the region. In fact, Amirabad is the largest port facility on the Caspian shore and the third largest in Iran.
A total of 3.6 million tons of goods were loaded and unloaded in Amirabad in the fiscal 2019-20.
A contract was signed in 2020 for the construction of a silo with the capacity to store 30,000 tons of grains in Amirabad Port.
According to Director of Amirabad Special Economic Zone Mohammad Ali Saeedi, the contract is in the form of a BOT (build, operation and transfer).
The project is expected to be completed within two years.
“Presently, Amirabad has the capacity to store 235,000 tons of grains. More silos with the collective capacity of storing another 235,000 tons are under construction,” the official was quoted as saying by IRNA.
The new silo will be built on around 7,000 square meters of land and create 12 direct jobs for local people.
“The first phase of the grain silo construction project in the northern Amirabad Port with the capacity to store 25,000 tons recently came on stream. As a result, the port’s grain storage capacity has reached 260,000 tons,” says director general of Amirabad Ports and maritime Organization.
“The project, when completed will have an overall storage capacity of 49,000 tons. Construction on the 7,000-square-meter site continues and more than 110 billion rials [$470,000] worth of investments will have gone into the project by the time it is fully inaugurated,” Asl-Saeedpour said.
The government is building up its wheat reserves by constructing new silos across the country.
