More investments come to Iranian Chabahar port
Due to the increase in annual loading and unloading capacity of Chabahar port, this port offers great investment opportunities, the port said quoting the Director General of Ports and Maritime of Sistan and Baluchestan as saying.
Regarding investments in Chabahar port, Behrouz Aghaei added that 12 companies have invested in Chabahar port and 11 investment contracts are being signed. Considering this, it is expected that by the end of this year significant investments will be made in this port.
Aghaei continued: The foreign and domestic investors have chosen the port of Chabahar as their investment destination, and in recent years we have witnessed an increasing number of investors in this port. Due to the increase in annual loading and unloading capacity of Chabahar port to eight million tons in the first phase of the Shahid Beheshti Port Development Project, this port offers good investment opportunities.
The port of Chabahar, as the largest oceanic port of the country, has great potential in terms of land and sea, due to its location outside the Persian Gulf; it can play a significant role in increasing the level of maritime trade in the country. Currently, Chabahar port consists of two port complexes, named shahid Kalantari port and Shahid beheshti port. Shahid kalantari port is a traffic port and the vision of shahid beheshti port development is to transform it into a multimodal and forth generation port, hencem it can play as the regional Hub port. Generally, shahid beheshti port development plan consists of five main phases, to be completed by the 2024 and nominal capacity of 86 million tones. In this regard, it is estimated that first phase is to be completed by the beginning of 2017, increasing the nominal capacity to over 8.5 million tons annually.
