Bandar Abbas passes 2m teus

“This is the target we planned for from the beginning of the last year relying on the introduction of SRCT2 (Phase I) and despite of collapsing trade growth in the current financial crisis, we achieved this remarkable record,” said A Jahan, container and logistics manager, of Tidewater.

Following the opening of the first phase of the second container terminal in February last year, the annual capacity at Bandar Abbas, the main Iranian container port, increased to 3.3m teus.