Export of oil and non-oil products from the Southern port of Shahid Rajaei rose up in the past three months of the local calendar year (started on March 21, 2019) compared with the preceding year.
Director General of Port and Maritime Organization of Hormuzgan province Allah Morad Afifipour made the remarks speaking to reporters in the South of the country on Monday.
Oil and non-oil exports witnessed three and 10 percent growth respectively during the period, the official said.
Shahid Rajaei port is the biggest and the most equipped port of its kind that covers 80 percent of container operations in Iran.
As Afifipour said, about 19.9 million tons of oil and non-oil products have been loaded onto and offloaded from Shahid Rajaei Port during the past three months.
Meanwhile, some 1,047 vessels have operated to ship the merchandises from the port.
Also, an increasing trend has been reported from other Iranian customs gates in the same period.
On Sunday, Head of Markazi Customs Administration Esmaeil Hosseini said that more than 225 million worth of non-oil commodities have been exported from the central Iranian province of Markazi in the first three months of the current local calendar year, which shows a year-on-year increase by 4%.
More than 381,479 tons of non-oil commodities have been exported from Markazi province in the 3-month period, Hosseini said.
He added that the figures show a 4% growth in terms of value and a 12% decline in terms of tonnage compared with the similar period in last year.
On Saturday, the Customs Department in Iran’s Southeastern port city of Chabahar announced that the office has witnessed a 38% rise in its collections in the first 3 months of the current local calendar year, compared with the corresponding period in 2018.