“By the end of the year, we will have 600 thousand tons of wheat internally in the ports of Imam Khomeini, Chahbahar, Shahid Rajai, Amir Abad and Anzali,” said the deputy director of the Ports and Maritime Organization, saying that, according to the goal, the domestic transportation would expand to domestic sea freight.

Mohammad Ali Hassanzadeh said at a news conference referring to the Ports and Maritime Organization’s program for the rapid growth of the internal transportation. About three weeks ago, domestic wheat crops began with domestic shipping, and the first 20,000-ton wheat bin went from Imam Port to Chahbahar Port.

Last day, the second 20,000-ton vessel from western provinces sent wheat to Chabahar from the port of Imam, which is currently being evacuated and discharged at the Chabahar port, which is being coordinated by Iran’s public trading corporation.

The deputy port director of the Ports and Maritime Organization said: Delivery of wheat in the Chahbahar port goes directly through the truck to the eastern provinces of the country. It is also stipulated that the port of Shahid Rajaee should be considered for the transportation of goods from the Central Provinces.

Hassanzadeh continued: From next week, the Northern provinces wheat will be transported in the form of domestic sea freight through the Amirabad port to Bandar Anzali, and this wheat is for the provinces of Ilam, Ardabil and Azerbaijan.

He added: “Previously, we had sea freight in Karun, but due to the drop in the water level of Karoon, domestic shipping was lost.

“By the end of this year, 450,000 tons of wheat from Imam Port to Shahid Rajaee and Chahbahar ports and from Amir Abad to Bandar Anzali will reach 150,000 tons by the end of this year, and by the end of the year, we will have 600,000 tons of domestic sea freight,” said the port deputy director of the Ports and Maritime Organization.

Hassanzadeh added: “Each ship holds 20 thousand tons of trucks per thousand.

He said the sucker device of cereals in Chahbahar has the capacity to discharge and load 600 tons per hour, and discharging and loading 30 trucks per hour.

The deputy director of the Ports and Maritime Organization said: “The cost of saving fuel in the interior cabotage is one billion Tomans, taking into account current fuel rates.

Hassanzadeh said: We have proposed that fuel for ships be delivered to the domestic cabotage with a subsidy rate that has not yet been finalized. However, this carriage model is subject to the Carriage of Goods Act.

He said the sea freight of cereals would economically more feasible, saying: “Before that, we had the internal transportation of wheat food and so on, and the gasoline of Sistan and Baluchestan province was provided through the Chahbahar Port.

The deputy of the Ports and Maritime Organization said: We have studied that the economic distance of wheat shipment by a truck in Iran is 400 kilometers and not more than that, for the transport of railways is 700 kilometers. For this reason, the most affordable shipping mode is a hybrid method.

Hassanzadeh said that at the High Council of Logistics, with the presence of representatives of the eastern provinces, it was approved that 20 percent of the basic goods imported from the eastern provinces of the country should be evacuated to Chahbahar, since the goods that were to be discharged in the port of Zahedan, South Khorasan or Mashhad were previously discharged in Imam port, and then they were transported to eastern provinces by truck.

“We had a total of 5,000 unloaded ships and trucks in this section, but with the activation of the domestic sea freight, a lot of this traffic will be removed,” he continued.

The Ports and Maritime Organization’s deputy port manager said three ports at Logistical Council were introduced as the first level logistics port which includes Imam Khomeini ports, Shahid Rajai and Shahid Beheshti Chabahar ports, and Amir Abad port was also introduced as the second level logistics port.

Hassanzadeh emphasized: The domestic sea freight does not cause a problem for the trucks in relation to the cargo amounts because the grains are transported by road from Chahbahar port.

“We also cooperate with the foreign companies that have exports and according to the regulations we are obliged to obtain exchange currencies from them, the domestic ships will be charged in Iranian Rials instead” he said about the foreign exchange shipments received by the Ports Organization.

The deputy director of Port and Marine Organization added: “We have THC issues for Iranian and foreign companies, which is about 8 thousand Tomans, which is equivalent to the foreign exchange value of the Senate and the Iranian equivalent to Nimaee currency.

Hassanzadeh said about the provision of fuel subsidies to domestic shipping companies: this should be checked by the Ministry of Oil, but we have made suggestions.

He also said that we have faced a shortage of capacity when we shut down some of our lines to our ports, but if domestic companies can build standard containers that have the ability to navigate, we will sell these containers to the purchasers of these containers. We provide facilities.

The Ports and Maritime Organization Port Authority Deputy said that in the High Council for Transportation Coordination we have proposed to compensate for the shortage of containers from shipping companies, if possible, a second container, which has been approved by the Supreme Transportation Council for this facility, and we expect it to last for two months The future will come to a conclusion.

Hassanzadeh said that our shipping companies will be shipping to most ports of the world, but the operator terminal may not welcome our presence due to partnership with the US, emphasizing that no country has officially announced that they will not go to their ports.

He also pointed to the ports evacuation and loading figures, saying: “During the 10 months of this year, we had 111 million tons of oil and non-oil loading and unloading, which dropped by 13% from the same period last year, mainly due to trade restrictions, the limit of 1,400 quantity caused this decline.

The vice-president of the Ports and Maritime Organization added: “We had a decrease of 11.7% in the area of ​​oil and product loading and unloading, and we lost 13% in the non-oil sector of General Cargo and bulk.”