Precondition for Activation of North-South Transit Corridor

The decline in supply restrictions and increase in demand for shipment of goods and containers have led to a fivefold increase in container transportation compared with the pre-Covid period. 
The shipment of containers hit all-time highs in 2021, but started to fall in the middle of 2022. The outbreak of the Ukraine crisis in early 2022 once again underlined the importance of supply chain. It is necessary for us to learn from the crises of the current supply chain and brace ourselves for future global developments in transportation, logistics and supply chain. 
Adopting temporary tactics without having a strategy in the face of economic, political, regional and global phenomena will reduce or even undermine the country’s transit and logistics advantages in the global supply chain in the long run. 
Hossein Shahdadi, a senior official with Sistan-Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Organization, prefaced his write-up for the Persian daily Shargh with this note. A translation of the text follows: