Benefiting from the north-south corridor requires the connection of northern ports to the rail network

According to Fars news agency, quoting from the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development’s news website, Jabar Kochchinejad, referring to the very high capacities of the southern and northern ports of the country, said: We have very good capacity in the southern ports of the country, and fortunately, we have been able to use a significant part of these capacities. We also have a high capacity in the northern ports of the country, but unfortunately we have not been able to take full advantage of all these capacities in the north of the country.

The member of the Program and Budget Commission of the Islamic Council continued: The activity of the northern and southern ports of the country with all available capacities will create employment and economic prosperity of the country, and for this reason, we must use all our efforts and be able to witness the dynamism of the country’s ports, the prosperity of production and industry, favorable export and import situation of the country, high transit, etc.

By stating that the connection of the country’s northern ports to the rail and the national rail network is one of the most important requirements for the development of the country’s transit through sea transportation, Kochinejad said: Many goods owners are interested in shipping their goods not by road but by rail and after Unloading and loading at the ports to transfer to the destination.

* The performance of Amirabad port in export is favorable

Emphasizing that benefiting from the North-South Corridor and the development of the country’s transit through this route requires connecting the ports, especially the northern ports, to the national rail and rail network, he said: Anzali, Caspian, Amirabad, Nowshahr and Astara ports are the most important northern ports of the country. And all of them should be connected to the rail, as Amirabad has this advantage and has been able to perform well in the field of exports.

* Necessity of connecting 35 km of rail connection from Rasht to Caspian port

The representative of the Islamic Council stated that at the current time the ports along the Caspian Sea are very important for the country and added: if we can establish a 35 km rail connection from Rasht to the Caspian port and witness the complete connection of the rail network of the northern ports of the country The development of transit and container transportation of the country will definitely be realized.

A member of the Program, Budget and Calculations Commission of the Islamic Council stated that the transit of goods will play a special role in the prosperity of the economy of the north of the country, and said: if there is to be transit of goods from the south to the north and vice versa and we can witness sea transportation and transit of goods from countries South Asia to Russia and Europe and vice versa, we should pay more attention to the development of the country’s northern ports.

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