Iran Press/Iran News: At the ceremony held to mark Iran's national day of transportation, Mohammad Eslami was questioned by reporters about Iran's efforts to achieve a sea-oriented economy and coastal development and said that the plans of the Ministry of Roads and Urban are pursuing by Ports & Maritime Organization (PMO) in three-pronged plans.
"First, developing ports and bringing them to a capacity that can include both domestic and international transit," Eslami said.
He added that an important issue in Iranian ports is the creation of centers so that investors can invest in them. That is, we need to produce items in ports that can be sold both domestically and internationally, and these investments are a growing trend, continued the minister.
"We are welcoming investors every day and they want to have some spaces in the ports to invest", highlighted Iran's Top official.
"Ship and shipping is the second subject. The Port and Maritime Organization finance those who want to make the needed vessels by using domestic capacity. It should be noted that a number of these vessels have been manufactured or under construction", added Eslami.
"The third point is to support the status quo. Until now, many of the items, and equipment used in the ports were imported. But in the last two years, the PMO has used its domestic resources to build the equipment so that we can create jobs by using our national capacity to build vessels and port equipment or collaborate with other countries to build these vessels", noted the Minister of Roads and Urban Development.
"In this way, we will show the effects of a sea-oriented economy so that we can be active under the sanctions," stressed Eslami.
"Today, both the sanction and the ports' needs are knotted, and this is an opportunity for Industrialists to use their abilities to equip these ports," Eslami concluded.
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