Persian Gulf is a waterway which has located along the Oman Sea and between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula and includes 237, 473 square kilometers. It is a third biggest world Gulf after Mexico Gulf & Hudson Bay.
Persian Gulf is connected to the India Ocean &Arab Sea through Hormuz straight & Oman Sea from East and Shatt Al-Arab River, which is joined to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers & Karun from West.
Most famous and important Iranian ports in Persian Gulf and Oman Sea are:
- Khorramshahr Port:
This port called as a main way and appropriated terminal in trading exchanges between Iran, Iraq and Kuwait due to it placed beside Arvand River.
One of the container port in the Persian Gulf is Khorramshahr. Because it is neighborhood with Iraq has considered as a strategic area for business & politic which make a good opportunity for investment with located in Arvand free zone and near Khuzestan Steel Industries and Abadan refinery.
All infrastructure of Khorramshahr port has been completed at present and it has a better situation comparing with pre-war.
The development of the terminal and construction of a standard terminal on land with an area of 30 hectares is on agenda deposit of existing container’s facilities in Khorramshahr.
- Abadan Port:
- Near to Iraq and Kuwait for trade and commerce exchanges
- Near to Imam Khomeini port for transit or transshipment of goods
- There are Passenger terminals and the site Kuwait to Abadan and vice versa
- It is neighborhood with refineries and facilitate exports
- Fuel dock
- Having tax-exempt of 20% for trading profit
- Flexibility in all types of vessels from 20 to 5000 tons
- Placed in the free trade zone, industrial Arvand River
- Having access to considerable sources of fresh water (Arvand rivers and Bahmanshir)
- Tourist attractions
- Nearest South port to the center of the country especially the western provinces
- Having Ahvaz-Abadan highway
- There are numerous streams to create an internal anchorage and mooring float
- Using fresh water to prevent corrosion of steel vessels
- Imam Khomeini Port:
- Bushehr port :
Negin port complex is a part of Bushehr Economic Zone with an area of 70 hectares with (expandable to 443 hectares). Now Bushehr has order to preparing the mention complex infrastructure to create a specific container and oil terminals. Water depth in external anchorage of this port is 15 meters which join to the internal anchorage through external channel with a length of 9200 meter and from internal anchorage through internal channel join to the Sultani Khor and dock port of Bushehr and from there to Powder Khor with 140 meters width, 10.3 m depth and 3900 m length.
- Rajaee Port:
Economic Zone placed in the south to the north of transit corridor that it is most important corridor in the world. It join Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf through Iran to the Caspian Sea and then through Russia to St. Petersburg and North of Europe.
Access to the high world seas trough Persian Gulf, join to the international railway and the Silk Road, having modern equipment and facilities, closely to Kish and Qeshm free zones and ports of the Persian Gulf port are unique geographical locations which has made it to strategic & unique base.
Having the lands supporting for transfer to investors in order to do activities, industrial, oil and service in the form of BOT, rent for short term, medium term and long term are the potential and unique capacities of this region.
- Bahonar port:
Unique geographical location for access to the open world seas through the Persian Gulf, access to the international connection, closely to Qeshm free areas and pleasure Islands and commercial ports on the Persian Gulf, are features which has made it to the strategic and unique base after Rajaee Port.
The special feature of this port is having 10, 2 meters pond completed reflow after the Imam Khomeini and Rajaee port between ports in the country.
It was the main port of BND not so long ago and every day is hosted the large numbers of tourists and travelers and considerable volume of BND trading depends on the activity of the port and it has a significant role in the region as considering to is located in range of BND.
- Lengeh Port:
Lengeh port has been acted as a cargo and passengers transit station not so long ago due to the special geographical position.
It was the best logistic terminal for Abu Musa Island, Greater and small Tunb and Farsi Island and is a minimum distance with different emirates of the United Arabic Emirates as Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah and while it has a long significant history of the passengers and goods transportation from the port to Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Futurism in development port has led the management to be considered to accept larger vessels in the development plan, so that the implementation of the eastern prolongation and increasing the area of the pond to make allowed traffic to 7 to 10 tons float in the closely future which capacity and loading of the port will increase significantly.
- BEHESHTI port ( CAHABAHAR):
The strategic position of the port and its location at the center of the east development has made the Ports and Maritime Organization puts on the agenda the development and implementation of a comprehensive plan for its development in the form of medium-term program.
It can be noted some of these programs as construction of two container berths with 640 m length and 16 meters waterline and 3 multipurpose berths with 580 length to a depth of 14 meters and 17 million cubic meters dredging to16 m depth and recovering of 195 lands.
The port is capable of a variety of goods including public services, container, bulk, petroleum products, and general cargo barges, floating water and storage and processing of goods.
Iran Shipping in the Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea is limited to Russia from north, to Iran from south, to Azerbaijan from west and to the republics of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan from East.
The most famous Iranian ports of the Caspian Sea are as follows:
- Anzali Port
- The largest ports of the Caspian Sea and equipped with modern facilities for loading and unloading
- having third rank between Iranian ports after BND and Rajaee port
- Relationship with regional and access markets
- located in the free zone and provide facilities and special features for owners cargo, traders and investors
- Closely to the largest oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea
- Tax-exempt
- Noshahr Port
The significant importance of the port is closely port to capital of Iran (Tehran) to all ports by road and air lines to the center of the country and other areas particularly in the West of Gilan and Golestan province in East.
- Karaj Steel machinery was the first consignment which has been discharged at the port.
- Having suitable climatic conditions in transit and export goods to Central Asia and the Caucasus.
- It has dedicated roofed warehouse and yard to export and transit of goods
- Having the bulk liquid storage tanks and connection to oil tanks Branch through pipeline
- Capacity for warehousing and movement of commercial, oil, dry bulk and liquid bulk non-oil goods
- Turcoman Port
- Amirabad Port
Amirabad is only northern port in Iran which connected to railway and has a potential and actual coast. It has been connected to Rajaee port and IKP in the south of the country through national railway network.
- Gaz Port
- Fereydun Kenar Port
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