Over 14 Million Tons of Goods Transited via Iran in 2023
14,750,000 tons of freights were transited through Iran's territory by the Iranian and foreign fleets in 2023 that is the highest record during the past years, Javad Hedayati said.
The performance of previous years in terms of the volume of road transit shows that the highest record was in 2015 with the transit of 12,300,000 tons, he added.
The transit of non-oil goods increased to 9,400,000 tons in 2023, which has grown by 38% compared to 2022, Hedayati said.
He also noted that transit of oil products reached 5,035,000 tons which shows a 112% increase compared to 2022.
Iranian Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Daryoush Amani had announced in March that his country was prepared to provide the regional states with access to the international waters through its transit routes.
Amani made the remarks, addressing the 86th meeting of the United Nations (UN)’s Inland Transport Committee (ITC), held in Geneva on February 20-23 with a theme of ‘Taking ambitious climate action – Moving towards decarbonized inland transport by 2050’.
Amani underlined Iran’s diplomacy of international transportation development and its readiness to provide maximum transit access of the regional states to the free waters in an interactive framework via all kinds of passageways through the Iranian territory.
He pointed to the growth of road transport, which should lead to initiatives to reduce the negative impacts of transportation on the environment, and said, “Road transport services should maintain competitiveness for society with low-cost and quick-yielding solutions.”
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