25 April 2013
Shahid Rajaie Port in Hormuzgan province will become the biggest cotton transit terminal in Central Asia, once the loading and offloading unit is established by the private sector.
Stating the above, Ali Estiri, the head of the Ports and Shipping Office in Hormuzgan, told reporters on Tuesday that the unit will cover an area of 15 hectares with a 6-kilometer railroad, IRNA reported.
Estiri said three kilometers of railroads have already been completed and work on the remaining three kilometers has progressed by 40 percent.
He said the facility costs 280 billion rials and will run with a capacity of loading or offloading 800,000 tons of cotton a year.
"Cotton transit capacity will increase threefold once the project is complete," he said.
Goods, consisting of cotton, minerals, fertilizers, oil derivatives and aluminum, as well as the bulk of Central Asia's dry products, will be destined for southeast Asian and Persian Gulf states.
Shahid Rajaie Port in Hormuzgan province will become the biggest cotton transit terminal in Central Asia, once the loading and offloading unit is established by the private sector.
Stating the above, Ali Estiri, the head of the Ports and Shipping Office in Hormuzgan, told reporters on Tuesday that the unit will cover an area of 15 hectares with a 6-kilometer railroad, IRNA reported.
Estiri said three kilometers of railroads have already been completed and work on the remaining three kilometers has progressed by 40 percent.
He said the facility costs 280 billion rials and will run with a capacity of loading or offloading 800,000 tons of cotton a year.
"Cotton transit capacity will increase threefold once the project is complete," he said.
Goods, consisting of cotton, minerals, fertilizers, oil derivatives and aluminum, as well as the bulk of Central Asia's dry products, will be destined for southeast Asian and Persian Gulf states.
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