Rail transit via Iran up 89% in 2.5 years
TEHRAN - Iran’s minister of roads and urban development revealed an 89 percent growth in the transit of goods via rail during the administration of the late President Ebrahim Raisi compared to the previous administration.
Mehrdad Bazrpash referred to the statistics in the field of transit during the administration of the late president and said good agreements were inked with the regional countries in this field and the road transit volume rose from 9.3 tons to 14.7 tons last year.
It is hoped that the volume of the road transit will exceed 20 million tons by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (to end March 20, 2025), he added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Bazrpash pointed to the two macro projects namely “Iran Rah” and “Housing of People” and expounded on the positive measures taken in these two fields.
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