Iran Pilots INSTC Cargo Transit 

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines has started piloting the multimodal cargo transit along the International North-South Transportation Corridor carrying goods from Russia to India, according to the head of Solaynka Port in Russia’s city of Astrakhan.
“The consignments are two 40-feet containers of wood laminates weighing a total of 41 tons. The containers were loaded at St. Petersburg and are heading toward Astrakhan where they will be loaded again at Solyanka Port. They will then traverse the Caspian Sea to reach Iran’s Anzali Port where they are scheduled to be transported to Bandar Abbas port city in southern Iran via trucks. The two containers will then be dispatched to Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s largest container port,” Darioush Jamali was also quoted as saying by IRNA.
The official estimated that the transit of this first trial consignment, as part of collaboration between the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line Group’s representative logistic companies in Russia and India, will take less than 25 days.