TEHRAN – The volume of goods transited by the Iranian rail network jumped by 109 percent in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year, which began on March 21, said Ane-Mohammad Gharavi, chairman of the transit committee at the Iranian Railways Company.

More than 452,000 tons of goods were transited in the four-month period to Central Asia and Persian Gulf states, the IRNA news agency quoted Gharavi as saying on Saturday.

The most volume of goods was transited from the Sarakhs-Bandarabbas railway and vice versa, he noted.

He added that transit of goods earn 590 billion rials (about $21 million) for the country, accounting for 40 percent of revenues of the Iranian Railways Company.

Transit of goods via Iran rose by 6.5 percent in the past Iranian calendar year, which ended on March 20, compared to the year before. 

Over 12.3 million tons of goods were transited via the country in the previous calendar year. 

Shahriyar Afandizadeh, the Iranian deputy transport and urban development minister, has said that Iran has the capacity to transit 40 million tons of goods annually.