Financial
Tribune reported that South Korea’s second batch of steel weighing 5,500 tonnes
was unloaded at the Iranian port of Chabahar in the southeastern
Sistan-Baluchestan Province. Mr Hossein Shahdadi an official with the
province’s Ports and Maritime Office said that “The unloading process took a
day and 17 hours.”
He said that “The first batch arrived in Chabahar in the Iranian month ending
December 21st 2017.”
The first phase of Chabahar’s Shahid Beheshti Port was inaugurated by President
Hassan Rouhani in the presence of some 70 visiting dignitaries from 17
countries on Dec. 3 of last year.
Chabahar is Iran’s only oceanic port town and consists of two separate ports
named Shahid Kalantari and Shahid Beheshti. The opening of the first phase of
Shahid Beheshti Port (out of five phases defined for the project), which has
tripled its capacity to 8.5 million tonnes (equal to that of all the northern
ports of the country), will allow the docking of super-large container ships
(between 100,000 DWT and 120,000 DWT) and increase India’s connectivity with
Afghanistan.