Managing director of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) Ali Akbar Safaei says India is operating the first phase of the strategic port of Chabahar in southeastern Iran.
Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development says the Chabahar port (Shahid Beheshti port) in southeastern Iran will be connected to the Chabahar-Zahedan Railway by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2025).
The governor of Iran’s Sistan-and-Baluchestan province has said that Chabahar Port has turned into a “petrochemical hub” due to its proper position to export petrochemical products.
The first container ship departing from China docked at Iran’s key port of Chabahar on Saturday, marking the establishment of the first direct shipping line between China and Iran's southeastern seaport.
Indian Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways has reaffirmed commitment to develop southern Iranian strategic port of Chabahar.
The head of the Iran-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce announced that rials (Iranian currency) are no longer used in Iran-Afghanistan exchanges.”
Full security prevails in Iran’s southeastern port city of Chabahar where a suicide car bomb attack killed and injured a number of people on Thursday morning, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said.
India is trying to make Chabahar Port in Iran operational by 2019, the government said in a statement, despite a threat of renewed U.S. sanctions against Tehran.
