Container throughput at Iran's port of Bandar Abbas has been surging ahead in line with current port development projects and expansion plans.
Iran's leading port operator, Tidewater Middle East Marine Services Company, reported a throughput of 830,427 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) for the first half of this year, a 28% jump from the same period last year.
Expecting container volumes to grow further, Tehran-based Tidewater is pressing ahead with the construction of new basins and a new terminal set to triple handling capacity of the Shahid Rajaee Container Terminal from two to six million TEUs.
Also on the cards is a second container terminal, backed by the Iranian Port & Shipping Organization (PSO) Investment.
First phase development, scheduled to be operational early next year, will include an 850 metres (m) quay with 17 m depth alongside, a 70 ha container yard and eight super post-Panamax gantry cranes.
Second phase development, scheduled for completion after 2009, will add on about 2 kilometres of quay length and a 140 ha container yard.
Iran's leading port operator, Tidewater Middle East Marine Services Company, reported a throughput of 830,427 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) for the first half of this year, a 28% jump from the same period last year.
Expecting container volumes to grow further, Tehran-based Tidewater is pressing ahead with the construction of new basins and a new terminal set to triple handling capacity of the Shahid Rajaee Container Terminal from two to six million TEUs.
Also on the cards is a second container terminal, backed by the Iranian Port & Shipping Organization (PSO) Investment.
First phase development, scheduled to be operational early next year, will include an 850 metres (m) quay with 17 m depth alongside, a 70 ha container yard and eight super post-Panamax gantry cranes.
Second phase development, scheduled for completion after 2009, will add on about 2 kilometres of quay length and a 140 ha container yard.