NEW DELHI – India has formally established shipping lines to Chabahar. Thefirst such ship arrived on Sunday. This was announced in a release from theIranian Prime Minister’s office.
It has been decided that regular ships from 3 Indian ports –Mumbai, Kandlaand Mundra will now regularly go to the Iranian port every 2 weeks.
The director general of Sistan-Baluchestan Ports and Maritime OrganisationBehrouz Aqayee said in the release, “With the arrival of the first 3700TEUcontainer at Shahid Beheshti Chabahar port, for the first time, theshipping line between the ports of Mumbai-Mundra-Kandla have opened”.
The development comes a month after India took over operations at the port.The Commercial operations at the port began on December 30 with the arrivalof a Cyprus registered bulk carrier with 72458 MT of corn cargo. The vesselMV Macheras berthed at the terminal on December 30, 2018. This is the firsttime India will be operating a port outside its territories.
The port is crucial for India’s connectivity to Afghanistan and to CentralAsia and North-South Transport Corridor that connects Mumbai to Moscow.
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The port is very important for landlocked Afghanistan which is keen to getconnectivity with international markets. It already has an air corridorwith India, opened in 2017.
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