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No.24 /February 2015
Iranian President Announced in Chabahar Port:
Chabahar-Iranshahr
Railway Project Phase I to
Complete within Current
Presidential Term
D
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follow the development and progress of the port personally.
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his Administration that would minimize numerous problems caused by road transport, such
as environment destruction, security issues and high human death toll on the roads. For this
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operational and completed by the end of the current presidential term, in order to guarantee
the satisfaction of the local populations."
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Large Private Sector
Investment in Ports
T
he Deputy Managing Director for Port Affairs
and Special Zones of the Ports and Maritime
Organization (PMO) announced the conclusion
of 45 contracts with a value of some 18 trillion Rials in
the past eight months, attraction of some 46,490 billion
Rials in toto, and the investment of around 21 trillion
Rials by the Private Sector in the ports of the country.
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the related ports and hinterlands.
The PMO's Deputy Managing Director also pointed
to the investment of some 10 trillion Rials by the
Private Sector in Chabahar Port, and the construction
of warehouses and storage areas for petrochemical
products in that port.
According to the same report, the construction of
storage tanks for heavy oil products, desalination plants,
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received private investments in Hormozgan Province.
The report also mentioned that Khuzestan Province
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uring the President's visit to the Development products storage tanks, construction and operation
Plan of Shahid Beheshti Port in Chabahar, the of facilities and equipment for waste reception and
Minister of Road and Urban Development recycling, construction and operation of an inland
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Makran Coasts and the Eastern Corridor, namely Moreover, Firuzkuh Cement Company has also
strengthening and promoting the port capacity, concluded a contract to construct a cement warehouse
connecting Chabahar Port to Jask and providing the for export purposes with the Iranian Maritime
port with rail connection."
Administration and Amirabad Special Economic Zone
Dr. Akhoondi elaborated: "We have already taken the (SEZ).
initial executive steps to connect the port to the national As for Bushehr Province, the Deputy Managing Director
railway grid, by constructing the Chabahar-Zahedan SRLQWHGWRWKUHHLQYHVWPHQWSURMHFWVIRUFRQVWUXFWLQJD
railway for 1,300 kilometers."
power plant, establishing a container terminal including
The Iranian Minister further stated: "The connection construction of infrastructures, public facilities, and
between Chabahar and Jask through a road of about 350 providing equipment for yards and berths, as well
kilometers has progressed to around 50 percent, which as constructing an oil terminal with a capacity of 50
will favorably expand and expedite the eastern corridor thousand cubic meters in order to accommodate ships
of the country."
of up to 35 thousand GT.
Three Measures to
Develop Makran
Coasts & Eastern
Corridor
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PMO
Shahid Rajaee Port
Development Plan
Enters Phase III
D
uring a visit of Mr. Eshagh Jahangiri, the
Iranian Vice-President to Hormozgan Province,
the executive operations for the third phase of
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includes building 442 meters of berth with a depth of 16
meters, and dredging some 1.650 million cubic meters
of the seabed in the west side of the third basin of the
port.
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under the investment of some 70 million US Dollars
from the internal sources of the Ports and Maritime
Organization (PMO).
It is worth mentioning that the third phase of this port
development plan requires 500 million US Dollars to be
invested in building berths for 1,500 meters, dredging
some 5 million cubic meters and establishing container
yards for 55 hectares.
With the completion of Phase III, the loading and
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from the present 6 million TEUs to 8 million. Moreover,
the establishment of container and refrigerated
container yards, presence of new private entities within
the port area, new employment opportunities in the port
and maritime sections, and moving towards becoming
a hub port in the Persian Gulf Region are some of the
advantages of developing this largest commercial port
of the country.
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Port, with a capacity to load and discharge 100 million
tons of cargos per year, is located 23 kilometers west
of Bandar Abbas, and supports over 55 percent of
import and export cargos, as well as 70 percent of cargo
transited by the Iranian ports as a whole.
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Providing
Facilities for Port
Equipment and Ship
Construction
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Shahid Dehgan
Radar Site in BIK
Reopened
A
fter a period of technical problems and
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of Shahid Dehgan in Khoor Moosa waterway
was reopened by the experts of the Technical and
Maintenance Department of the Ports and Maritime
Directorate General of Khuzestan Province.
Mr. Behrooz Aghayi, the Technical and Maintenance
Deputy of this directorate general pointed to the crucial
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waterway for guiding and directing vessels to navigate
in a safe route, and added: "Following the observation
of some technical issues in Shahid Dehgan Radar Site,
one of the three VTS sites on this waterway, a series of
efforts were commenced to resolve the shortcomings."
Mr. Aghayi mentioned localizing the know-how to
repair sensitive electronic modules of radar sites, and
transferring the learnings on operation and maintenance
of such systems to other ports of the country as some
of the highlights of the complex technical operations
on this radar site, and added: "After the completion of
this repair operation, the Iranian expert capacity in this
section has been promoted into a higher level."
nder the new economic agreement between
the Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO)
and Bank Mellat, and the bank receiving
high deposits from PMO, Bank Mellat has decided to
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equipment purchases and ship construction.
In the ceremony held for conclusion of this agreement,
the Managing Director of Bank Mellat and PMO's
Deputy Managing Director for Port Affairs and Special
Zones stressed the need to develop port services and
provide for port strategic equipment.
In regard to providing facilities from the managed
sums of the Iranian Maritime Administration, the
highest executive of Bank Mellat elaborated: "Using
the sums deposited by PMO in the bank, we also
undertake to assist interested parties for ship purchase
and construction, referred to the bank by the PMO, and
the facilities will be given after certain assessment and
consideration procedures."
The PMO's Deputy Managing Director also stated:
"With the conclusion of this agreement, this
Organization will increase its transactions with Bank
Mellat by some 600 billion Rials, so that the bank could
in turn assist investment on construction and purchase
of vessels and port equipment."
According to PMO's Member of Managing Board, the
conclusion of the new agreement meant Bank Mellat
would provide facilities to parties that intended to invest
in supplying strategic equipment for Phases II, III and
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and other commercial ports of the country.
PMO's Deputy Managing Director added: "There are
no limits on the facilities for investment in maritime
and port sections, and the Organization funds such
endeavors by its managed sums through the banking
system, with due consideration of national economic
priorities."
PMO's Managing
Director and UAE
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Discussed:
PMO Holds
Training Seminar on
Logistics & Dry Port
Development
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n a one-day training seminar on logistics and dry port
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Organization (PMO) and Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA), Mr. Shinya Hanaoka, a
transportation expert and associate professor of Tokyo
Institute of Technology presented topics including
performance and advantages of establishment and
development of dry ports, port logistics, multimodal
transport, and experiences of various countries in this
respect.
In this training seminar, representatives from Iranian
ports, and the private companies active in the ports,
as well as experts and executives from the PMO
headquarters in Tehran participated.
In the beginning of the seminar, Mr. Jalil Eslami, the
PMO's Director General of Port Affairs, called for
higher and better cooperation between his organization
and JICA.
Mr. Takeuchi, the Chief Representative of JICA in Iran
also expressed his gratitude to the Iranian Maritime
Administration for holding this training seminar, and
announced the willingness of the Japanese side for
promoting different technical transactions with Iran.
Japan International Cooperation Agency is a prestigious
international institute active in technical cooperation
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with PMO, and has dispatched many instructors to Iran
for training purposes to date.
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Jebel Ali by the UAE;
- Considering and commenting on the draft agreement
on coastal shipping by the UAE;
- Designating contact points to follow port and maritime
issues on the two sides;
- Holding bilateral port and maritime meetings regularly
once or twice a year; and
- Preparing to resolve issues related to traditional
vessels in the waters of the two countries.
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Jebel Ali, and met with Mr. Mahmood Madani, the
Representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader in
UAE, and a number of Iranian merchants and owners
of traditional dhows, where issues such as port tariffs,
reducing costs of maritime voyages and providing
facilities to traditional vessels were discussed.
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uring a three-day visit to the ports of United
Arab Emirates, the Managing Director of the
Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) met
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and called for promoting cooperation on maritime and
port transport and investment.
According to this report, promotion of commercial ties
through port development and maritime transport was
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the two sides. The other topics agreed to be considered
and put into implementation were:
- Considering and commenting on the draft bilateral
agreement on maritime-commercial shipping by the
UAE;
- Considering and commenting on the draft sister-port
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Promoting Commercial Ties
through Port Development
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2015
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PMO
Rails Connect Shahid Rajaee Port
to 22 Countries
T
he Port Operations Deputy of Port and Maritime
Directorate General for Hormozgan Province
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Economic Zone (SEZ) was connected to 22 other
countries by rails, and predicted the share of rail
transport of different cargos in that port to double from
the current 5 percent.
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the beginning of the present Iranian Year, some 2.385
million tons of cargo have been loaded or discharged by
rail in this SEZ, which registered a growth of 5 percent
compared to the previous year."
He pointed to the fact that a portion of handling cargos
to be imported, exported or transited was conducted by
54 kilometers of rails (including gantry rails) within the
port, and added that some 42 thousand train cars had
transferred cargos to and from that port this year.
According to Mr. Saeedipur, transit cargos produced
revenue of 200 US Dollars per ton for the country, as
well as direct or indirect employment opportunities for
over 1,000 people.
5HFDOOLQJ WKH FRQQHFWLRQ RI 6KDKLG 5DMDHH 3RUW WR countries of the world, the Port Operations Deputy of
Hormozgan Province stated: "At present, this Directorate
General plans to provide rail connection to all the different
sections of the port area, which is some 2,400 hectares."
He counted minerals, bulk liquids, containers, cotton,
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cargos that were transported from the Iranian port by
rail to Central Asia, China, Southeast Asia and Europe.
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constructing the largest container rail terminal in Iran,
and added: "The grains silo area with rail connection,
and an oil rail terminal with 6 kilometers of rails will
also be completed by 2016."
The Port Operations Deputy of Hormozgan Province
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share of rail transactions of that port growing to around
10 percent, and stated: "Some rival States in the Persian
Gulf do not have rail facilities, and this has become a
great merit for our port in the regional competition."
He declared the increased access and connection of
private entities of that port to the national railway grid
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Iranian commercial port.
Mr. Saeedipur concluded: "Lower fuel costs (to around
one sixth of road transport), minimized road accidents,
and lower transport time are the market advantages
transporting cargos on rails."
To Be Implemented from
January 2015:
Stricter Maritime
Fuel Requirements
in Populated Port
Areas
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long the 113th Council Meeting of the
International Maritime Organization (IMO),
Ms. Mansoorian was appointed as the new
representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the
permanent representative of the Ports and Maritime
Organization (PMO) to IMO.
In this ceremony, the IMO Secretary General pointed to
the continuous and fruitful cooperation and support of
this country in all the issues discussed in IMO meetings,
highlighted the role of representatives in communication
between IMO and member States, and commended
the efforts of the previous Iranian representative, Mr.
Marzban, including the establishment of Permanent
Representatives' Club as facilitating the coordination of
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Ms. Mansoorian expressed her hopes that the
endeavors, measures and cooperation of Iran and other
members towards the interests of international maritime
community would promote safety and security of
navigation, and marine environment protection.
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(SOx) and other particulate matter from ships."
He pointed to the unanimous approval of these
regulations in 2008, and their entry into force in
2010, and added: "At the time being, sulfur emission
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VI include the Baltic Sea, North Sea, North American
Maritime Region (some coasts of the United States and
Canada) and the Caribbean American Maritime Region
(near Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands)."
He emphasized: "The current limitation of sulfur content
in maritime fuels outside ECAs is 3.5 percent, which
would be further reduced to 0.5 percent by 2020. This
date depends on a survey to be conducted in 2018 on
the availability and accessibility of suitable fuel around
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postpone the above date up to 2025."
PMO
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rom 1 January 2015, ships navigating in emission
control areas (ECA) shall use fuels with the
sulfur content not exceeding 0.1 percent, while
the limitation was 1 percent up to the end of 2014.
The Deputy Managing Director for Maritime Affairs of
the Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) announced
the above news and explained: "ECAs are waters
designated as so upon the request of their littoral States,
due to environmental sensitivity, heavy maritime
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other similar reasons, and ships need to follow stricter
requirements within such areas."
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enforced under Annex VI (Preventing Air Pollution
from Ships) to the MARPOL Convention, namely
Regulation 14 that monitors emission of sulfur oxides
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Domestic Seafarer
Training Simulator
Unveiled
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A
seafarer training simulation system, designed
and built by Iranian experts, was unveiled in a
ceremony attended by the Managing Director
of the Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) and the
Advisor to the Iranian Ministry of Sciences, Research
and Technology, at PMO's Seafarer Training Center.
According to this report, this simulator is composed of
two hardware and software sections, with the hardware
section completely localized, while the localization of
the software will be completed by the next year.
PMO's Seafarer Training Center possesses three training
simulators at present, two of which are foreign systems
previously purchased, while the third was produced by
Iranian experts in cooperation with the Private Sector.
Under the requirements approved by the International
Maritime Organization (IMO), all seafarers need to
undergo maritime simulator training programs, without
which they will not be allowed to work on board vessels.
According to PMO's Managing Director, such a
technology is crucial for maritime training sections,
and it has also been planned to employ this simulation
system for military training purposes, through adding
the required modules to the hardware in order to
accommodate military vessels as well.
Access Channel Safety Guaranteed for
Charak Passenger Berth
T
he Port and Maritime Affairs Deputy of Lengeh
Port announced the removal of two sunken
ships from the waters near Charak Passenger
Berth and the resulting safety of the access channel to
that berth.
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the above port, Mr. Ayub Khademi Bandari announced
this news and elaborated: "The two sunken vessels
were the barge Bardia and the tugboat Naser, which
were removed from the channel to Charak Port, after
the mud was washed by a barge and crane, and the
cutting and balloon operations were completed."
He added: "In order to promote safety in the channel
for passenger transfer purposes, the removal of the
mentioned wrecks had commenced last year under
the efforts of safety experts from Lengeh Port and
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tugboat Naser."
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Sector
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announced the conduction of a multi-purpose
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and pollution response, with the aim of assessing and
promoting safety of maritime transport in that port.
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search and rescue and marine pollution response teams
participated.
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craft, rescuing people from the water, containing
pollution around the vessel and recovering the cargos
dropped into the sea were some sections of the
tii d exercise.
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mentioned
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teams and one ambulance completed this exercise
successfully in less than one hour and 45 minutes."
The Operational Deputy of Shahid Bahonar Port added
that under the requirements of the Ports and Maritime
Organization (PMO), such exercises needed to be
conducted regularly in order to promote safety and
assess the capability of operational forces.
Shahid Bahonar is the oldest commercial port of Bandar
Abbas, and more than 2.5 million tons of cargos are
loaded and discharged in this port every year.
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Capability of Operational Forces
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He added that using PMO's managed sums would be
increased in order to motivate the potential investors in
the coming years.
PMO's Managing Director further pointed to a private
investment of some 17 trillion Rials in the Iranian ports
in the past year, and stated: "In the past eight months,
45 contracts to invest 18,799 billion Rials in the port
section were concluded, while a total of 46,490 billion
Rials of investments were also attracted in the past
years."
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trillion Rials by private entities in the Iranian ports
would also bring about employment opportunities for
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PMO
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n a ceremony held for concluding investment
contracts of some 21 trillion Rials with the Private
Sector, the Managing Director of the Ports and
Maritime Organization (PMO) considered the private
entities as business partners of his organization,
and stated: "Our biggest challenge is promoting our
excellent status in the Persian Gulf and Gulf Oman, and
we thus need to provide for the required investments in
different maritime and port sections."
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Sector's presence being crucial for developing Iranian
ports, and mentioned: "For this purpose, we have
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participation of the private entities."
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Large Private Sector
Investment in Ports
The Deputy Managing Director for Port Affairs and
Special Zones of the Ports and Maritime Organization
(PMO) announced the conclusion of 45 contracts with a
value of some 18 trillion Rials in the past eight months,
attraction of some 46,490 billion Rials in toto, and the
investment of around 21 trillion Rials by the Private
Sector in the ports of the country.
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Relations and International Affairs, such a huge
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the related ports and hinterlands.
The PMO's Deputy Managing Director also pointed
to the investment of some 10 trillion Rials by the
Private Sector in Chabahar Port, and the construction
of warehouses and storage areas for petrochemical
products in that port.
According to the same report, the construction of
storage tanks for heavy oil products, desalination plants,
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received private investments in Hormozgan Province.
The report also mentioned that Khuzestan Province
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products storage tanks, construction and operation
of facilities and equipment for waste reception and
recycling, construction and operation of an inland
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and packing factory.
Moreover, Firuzkuh Cement Company has also
concluded a contract to construct a cement warehouse
for export purposes with the Iranian Maritime
Administration and Amirabad Special Economic Zone
(SEZ).
As for Bushehr Province, the Deputy Managing Director
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power plant, establishing a container terminal including
construction of infrastructures, public facilities, and
providing equipment for yards and berths, as well
as constructing an oil terminal with a capacity of 50
thousand cubic meters in order to accommodate ships
of up to 35 thousand GT.
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n order to promote the preparedness and capability
of the personnel operating on tugboats in Noshahr
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man overboard were carried out in the basin of the
mentioned port.
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of the Ports and Maritime Directorate General of
Mazandaran Province, the exercise attended by
relevant experts and personnel included a hypothetical
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and extinguishers, which was conducted successfully
according to the scenario.
It must be mentioned that this exercise was conducted
on 9 and 10 December 2014, with the participation
of maritime affairs experts, personnel from Hedayat
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Port Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC
Noshahr).
Purchasing 18
Container Cranes
and 48 Transtainers
Funded
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n the ceremony to commence Phase III of Shahid
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Director of the Ports and Maritime Organization
(PMO) announced the resolution of credit problems
for purchasing container handling equipment in that
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Development has recently approved the funding
required to purchase 18 container cranes and 48
transtainers necessary to complete the equipment needs
for container stowage stipulated in Phase II of the Port
Development Plan."
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among the best ports of the world, and added: "We
are planning to further promote the status of this port
in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz by assisting
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into a regional hub port."
PMO's Managing Director highlighted the challenges
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regional ports, and elaborated: "Being located on a
Special Area, and the extensive interest of investors
has resulted in the investment of 11.79 trillion Rials in
this port, which calls for the hinterlands being doubled
in terms of surface area, from its present condition to
around 4,800 hectares."
Abandon Ship
and Man Overboard
Exercise in
Noshahr Port
With Container Terminal III Opened:
Shahid Rajaee Port Capacity
Increased 80 Percent
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port will grow some 80 percent (from the current 85 million) and reach 150 million tons.
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reach some 8 million TEUs."
Dr. Akhoondi pointed to the fact that the annual capacity of the port would be increased from 85 to 150 million
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highlighted that this would mean a growth of 80 percent compared to status quo.
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of 16 meters, and dredging some 1.650 million cubic meters of the seabed in the west side of the third basin of the
port."
He pointed to the plan being stipulated for completion within 18 months under the investment of some 70 million
US Dollars from the internal sources of the Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO).
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III of this development plan, and highlighted: "The 2,400 hectares of hinterlands in this port will be expanded for
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for maritime transport, the capacity of Bandar Abbas-Tehran railway is also being promoted, so that the increased
inland cargo transport will in turn encourage cargo transit from the northern ports of the country as well."
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Supplement to Port & Maritime Magazine
No.24 / February 2015
Translator: Ehsan Esmaieli
Photographer: Davood Tahari, Yaser Ali Bakhshi