The Director General of Ports and Maritime Authority of Guilan Province said: "This year, we have added about 100,000 tons to the current capacity of the port, and we hope that next year the grain capacity of Anzali Port will reach 200,000 tons."
According to the Public Relations of the Ports and Maritime affairs
of Guilan Province, Dr. Hamidreza Abaie in an interview, pointing out that good
measures were taken in the government to develop the infrastructure of ports in
Guilan Province, said: “According to the measures taken in Astara And Anzali
Ports, we can have a working capacity of about 15 million tons.”
He added: "Due to the construction of three berthing posts in
Bandar Anzali for general cargo and public goods, one berthing post for grain carriers
and two dolphin berthing structure, the carrying capacity of dry and liquid
bulk materials has been increased and this capacity has provided the conditions
for us to accept all kinds of goods and ships in Anzali Port.”
Abaie stated: “In Astara port, due to the
appropriate depth that was created in the port and the construction of two
berths by the private sector, we can reach an operating capacity of two million
tons per year. With the comprehensive plans and development that we have
considered for that port, this capacity can be increased again.”
Emphasizing that we are looking for optimal
use of the capacity of the province's ports, he specified: Anzali Port had 10
old berthing posts. Four concrete berthing posts and two dolphin berthing
structures were added to this number, and currently Anzali Port has 17 berthing
posts, and one of the berths is also used as a service one.”
The Director General of Ports and Maritime Authority of Guilan Province, referring to the importance of sea and port in the country's economy,
emphasized: “What has always been the slogan of the Ports and Maritime Organization
and perhaps accepted as a principle in the country is that the sea is the axis
of development. To consider the axis of sustainable development of the country,
we must consider maritime transport and maritime trade.”
Abaie, stating that currently more than 80% of
the country's trade takes place by sea and using maritime trade, said:
"Certainly, ports play a very important role as one of the main parts for
maritime transportation."
Emphasizing that ports play a role as the main
basis in increasing the volume of trade in each country and therefore maritime
transport is very important, he added: "In ports, the movement of goods
can be in a high volume and at a specific time and at a lower cost. We can also
move more cargo in ports by using maritime transport facilities and large
ships.”
Abaie said: "In the past, Anzali Port was used
to move iron, but in recent years, the import of this product has decreased and
has been replaced by grain imports."
Abaie stated: "With coordination and by
applying the laws of free industrial trade zones in 160 hectares of Anzali Port
area, we were able to attract private sector investors to build roofed
warehouses and mechanized grain warehouses and grain silos. Fortunately, the
construction of such structures promises better performance in loading and unloading
of grain and basic goods in the country.”
He added: "This year, we added about
100,000 tons to the current capacity of the port, and by using this capacity, Anzali
Port was able to reach approximately 120,000 tons of capacity in silos."
Abaie emphasized: “We are adding about 80,000
tons of new capacity for storage of grains. We hope that next year the capacity
of Anzali Port will reach 200,000 tons in the field of grains, so that by using
this capacity, we will see the storage of more basic goods and grains in silos.”
Pointing out that there are about 73,000
square meters of covered warehouses in Anzali Port, he added: "About
38,000 square meters of these warehouses were old and new warehouses have been
built, whose area is almost equal to half of this space and completely hygienic
principles and Grain storage is observed in them and we use this capacity to
increase the efficiency of the port.”
The Director General of Ports and Maritime Authority of Guilan Province
said: “with the coordination of the private sector and
the port operator, the necessary action was taken to absorb the cargo and load
and unload the grain properly. This caused Anzali Port to take back its share
of the Caspian Sea and be able to use this share with an increasing trend towards
loading, unloading and storing grains, which account for almost 70% of the
country's imports of goods.”
Stating that we need to increase our
capacities, Abaie emphasized: “with the record of one and a half million tons
that we hit in Anzali Port this year, I hope to bring this port to its real
position in the near future.”
Emphasizing that we should work in other areas
as well, he added: "The most important thing is that in addition to dry
bulk cargo, we can also provide a large capacity for liquid bulk cargo in Anzali
Port and with the favorable conditions that we create for the transit and
export of petroleum products, we can get the most benefit out of it that will
be possible with the use of two oil dolphin berthing structures and the transfer
of cargo out of the port which is almost finalized using pipelines.”
"In order to be able to play a role in
the development of exports, we need to take all our resources to the point
where exporters can transport their export goods to target countries with the
least cost, less time and less worry," Abaie said.
The Director General of Ports and Maritime Authority of Guilan Province, referring to the use of Ro-Ro ship capacity, said: "Due to the
problems that arose at the land borders of neighboring countries and target
countries, we use a method to export goods to Kazakhstan and Russia using trucks
carrying export goods by direct loading of these trucks on the ship.”
He pointed to the benefits of exporting goods
by ship: “this measure has several advantages, including less fuel consumption,
drivers are less tired, road problems and accidents are reduced, and most
importantly, the cost of transporting exported goods is reduced.”
Abaie emphasized: “In relation to Russia, we
are also consulting to be able to take advantage of these conditions, and we
hope that conditions will be created so that our drivers can deliver export
goods to their destinations in a better way and in a shorter time, with less
cost. This promises that the development of Anzali Port
infrastructure will lead to the development of exports in the province and the
country.”