Oil Products Exports from Bahonar Port Up by 69 Percent

Some 64,337 tons of oil products have been exported from Bahonar port in Southern Iran in a nine-month period (March 21, 2019, December 22, 2019), showing a growth of 95 percent as compared with last year’s corresponding period, a port official announced.

Director General of Shahid Bahonar Port Hamidreza Mohammad Hosseini said that in the said time, above 1.615 million tons of oil and non-oil products have been loaded and unloaded in the port, showing an increase of 19 percent annually, he added.

He noted that 384,000 tons were oil products and 1.233 million tons were non-oil goods.

According to the official, in this period, 47,000 passengers were transported through the Iranian port and the figure illustrates an annual rise of 64 percent.

Shahid Bahonar is one of the most active southern ports of Iran for both passenger and freight transport. The port enjoys a strategic position due to its proximity to the Persian Gulf littoral states and the Iranian islands of Qeshm and Kish.