TEHRAN- To facilitate mutual trade and expand common transportation ties, Iranian and Bulgarian customs administrations signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), IRIB news reported on Saturday.

The MOU was penned by the Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Masoud Karbasian and the Head of Bulgaria’s Customs Agency Rozalia Dimitrova.
Accordingly, the two sides will boost cooperation on transportation corridors, ease completion of infrastructure of transportation projects such as Tehran-Armenia-Georgia-Poti-Black Sea-Bulgaria transit corridor and Anzali- Tbilisi- Poti- Bulgaria corridor. They will also cooperate on transferring customs data.
Iran invited Bulgaria to join a new transport corridor between the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea which would connect Iran, Armenia, Georgia and Bulgaria, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov announced during his mid-July visit to Iran, Balkan Insight reported at the time.
“This corridor can be used not only for cargo and goods but also for natural gas,” Borissov told journalists after meeting Iran’s First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri. 

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