Planning to build a floating fuel storage site in Chabahar

According to the Fars News Agency Economic Group, Saeed Qabiti Today in a press conference, stating that the refueling site of Qeshm Marine Services and Shipping Engineering Company affiliated to the Shipping Group of the Islamic Republic of Iran currently supplies 1,200 tons of fuel to vessels daily in Shahid Rajaei port, he specified: This refueling site currently has a capacity of 53 One thousand tons of fuel is stored, which directly and indirectly has created 116 jobs.

He announced the amount of road and rail fuel transportation in this refueling site as rail about 30,000 tons per month and roads 5,000 tons per month and added: this volume of fuel through Bandar Abbas and Imam Khomeini refineries. Shazand Is provided.

The CEO of Qeshm Marine Services and Shipping Engineering Company announced the creation of refueling infrastructure for vessels in Chabahar port and other ports of the country as one of the development plans of the company under his management and said: “We have a plan in this regard and we are preparing for it.”

Qabiti Noting that the fleet of the shipping group of the Islamic Republic of Iran needs 400,000 tons of fuel annually, he said: “Our ultimate goal in Qeshm Marine Services and Shipping Engineering Company is to create and increase the storage potential and supply fuel for domestic production and transit fuels.” We have defined fuel and the creation of a complete refueling cycle with no dependence on the supply of fuel required by the fleet from abroad in our vision of activity.

Recalling the slogan of the year set by the Supreme Leader of the Revolution on the production of knowledge-based and employment-creating, he stated: The Shipping Group of the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to develop its activities in the supply and distribution of fuel for vessels Sulfur has taken serious steps to cooperate with domestic knowledge-based groups to produce this fuel.

Qabiti He added: “The purpose of this work is to bring the production of low sulfur fuel to the level of fully meeting the needs of the fleet and eliminating the need for foreign fuel and then exporting its surplus to gain a large share of the floating fuel market in the region.”

He assessed the production methods of low-sulfur fuel-based scientists in order to neutralize the oppressive sanctions, and said: “In this way, the measures to defeat the sanctions and the strategy of maximum pressure will be more than before.”

In another part of his speech, the official in charge of the Shipping Group of the Islamic Republic of Iran expanded the activities of the Shipping Group under sanctions in recent years and stated: The Shipping Group of the Islamic Republic of Iran has the largest commercial fleet in the region.

Among other measures taken by the Shipping Group of the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to strengthen domestic production and the national economy, the development of services in پسکرانه Danst and continued: In this regard, we offer a complete cycle of services to the owners of goods, part of which is manifested in the combined shipping company, which delivers cargo to different destinations by various rail and road routes.

The CEO of Qeshm Marine Services and Shipping Engineering Company, by successfully evaluating the plans of the shipping group to neutralize the sanctions, pointed to the transportation of 27 million tons of the company’s cargo volume during 1400 and specified: this figure means a 40% increase in cargo transportation compared to 99 Which is obtained in two parts: bulk and container.

He declared the support of production and domestic economy as an important strategy in the shipping group and continued: Currently, more than 20 knowledge-based companies are cooperating with the shipping group. Also, up to 99% of the fleet needs are supplied from within and The construction of containers and increasing the capacity of the domestic production fleet is being considered, and contracts have been concluded with local companies that are being implemented.

He added: “One of the development plans of the company is to enter Chabahar to complete the north-south corridor and one of our plans in Chabahar is to create a fuel storage site, which is expected to be created in 1403, while the volume required to invest in this project is about $ 100 million. The Shipping Company of the Islamic Republic of Iran had a good year in 1400 and its sales revenue was over one billion and 500 million dollars.

Qabiti In the end, he pointed to Setareh Qeshm refueling site in Salkh Qeshm port and said: This refueling site is designed and implemented based on the strategic location of Qeshm Island, which we hope will be able to sell to the center for sale due to the potential of 50,000 vessels per year. Fuel and services should be converted into domestic and foreign vessels and significant value added should be produced and imported into the country’s economic cycle.

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