Tehran, YJC. About 11.2 tonnes of mercantile has been transported across Iran’s 11 months into the current year.
11.281 million tonnes of goods have been transported across
the country’s borders in the first 11 months of the current Iranian-calendar
fiscal year (since March 21), said Mohammad Javad Atrchian, the director
general of the office for transit and border terminals of Iran Road Maintenance
and Transportation Organization.
He noted that the number shows a 6.2 %increase since to the same
period last year.
He noted that 5.097 million tonnes of the transported goods had
been oil products and 6.183 million tonnes of them were non-oil goods.
Fuel, chemical products, cotton, construction materials, home
appliances and passenger vehicles constitute the main part of the non-oil
commodities, Atrchian explained.
He also stated that the customs of southern port city of
Bandar Abbas was the country’s busiest border in terms of imports (26.7
percent), followed by Parvizkhan, Bashmaq and Bazargan borders.
Head of Iran's Customs Office Masoud Karbasian announced in
Feb. that the country had exported over $45 billion worth of non-oil commodities
during the first eleven months of the current Iranian year.
The value of petrochemical products so exported hit $12.545
billion, whereas the revenue from the export of other commodities reached $18.8
billion in that time span, he stated.