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Shahid Rajaee Economic Complex Leads Trade, Transit Gateways

The lion’s share of Iran's containers is handled at Shahid Rajaee Complex
Shahid Rajaee Economic Complex Leads Trade, Transit Gateways
Shahid Rajaee Economic Complex Leads Trade, Transit Gateways

Shahid Rajaee Special Economic Zone, located in the southern Hormozgan Province, accounts for the highest share of all goods exported from and imported to Iran.
Shahid Rajaee Port handled about 564,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) during the first four months to July 22 to register a year-on-year increase of 16%.
According to Director General of Hormozgan Province's Ports and Maritime Organization Alireza Mohammadi, 550 container ships docked at Iran’s biggest container port during the period, Mehr News Agency reported.
The economic zone, which has a loading/unloading capacity of 100 million tons per year, accounts for over half of Iran's trade and about two-thirds of total freight transit through the country.

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