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Iran’s rail transport up by 55%

20 February 2017 [12:48] - TODAY.AZ

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Iran’s cargo transit via rail has experienced a 55 percent increase year on year during the first 10 months of the current Iranian fiscal year (which started March 20, 2016).

Iran has not only not raised the transit tariffs much, it has been giving discounts as well due to the region’s economic downturn, Hossein Ashouri, director of the Transit Committee at the Islamic Republic Railways told Mehr news agency February 19.

Accordingly, the Iranian railways have been giving 30 percent discount on cotton and fertilizer from Uzbekistan, 30 percent on sulfur from Turkmenistan, 31 percent on mazut from Turkmenistan, and more, with all the tariffs ranging in percentage from 15 to 30, the official said.

However, he noted, the tariffs are given on goods transit from north to south and Central Asia to Iran; but if, for example, they are taken from Pakistan to Iran and then Central Asia, the tariffs will be five percent.

"The Islamic Republic Railways is considering reinvigorating the Central Asia-Pakistan corridor. Therefore, as a result of efforts over the past years, goods transit from Turkmenistan to the Mirjaveh checkpoint has increased by 20 percent, making 26,000 tons of goods," Ashouri further noted.

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