The increase of goods transit through the Caspian Sea route/ The first Russian ship to face to face after 21 years docked in Nowshahr

According to Fars news agency, Mehrdad Bazarpash, Minister of Roads and Urban Development of Iran and Special Assistant to the President of Russia, headed the delegations of the two countries on the development of cooperation in the air, sea, rail and road sectors and “multimodal transportation” and use They emphasized the transit capacity of goods through the Caspian sea route.

In this regard, Mehrdad Bazarpash, referring to Iran’s hosting of Russia’s first face-to-face cargo ship after 21 years in Nowshahr port, considered these traffics as a big step in maritime trade between Iran and Russia and said: Iran and Russia’s shipbuilding contracts in The Caspian Sea is important and the development of “multimodal transportation” with the arrival of Russia’s first transit cargo last year via the North-South International Corridor can promise more effective transportation cooperation.

The Minister of Roads and Urban Development emphasized: With the completion of 35 km from Rasht to Caspian Port, which is a sea port located in the Anzali Commercial-Industrial Free Zone, the railway network will connect Anzali Port and Caspian Port to the southern ports of Iran in the Persian Gulf, especially Bandar Abbas connects.

Bazerpash said: This issue will be an important development in multimodal transport with Russian ports in the north of the Caspian Sea.

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