On June 29, Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Serik Zhumangarin held a meeting with founder and president of the Iranian shipping company Golden Line, Ali Akbar Ehsani.
Golden Line provides services for handling shipping containers and logistics in the port of Caspian on Iran’s Caspian coast.
As reported by the Kazakh government’s press service, the Iranian company is interested in expanding its services for the export and transit of various cargoes from Kazakhstan, other Central Asian countries, Russia and Azerbaijan, to ports in the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, Asia and Africa.
The Iranian port of Caspian, where the company’s main loading and unloading facilities and ships are located, was recently connected to the Iranian railway network, providing direct connections between ports in the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Regarding the above, the head of the shipping company proposed cooperating with Kazakhstan on the construction of a Kazakh terminal in the port of Bandar Abbas.
“We have 25 hectares of container area at our disposal in the port of Bandar Abbas. We are also ready to allocate another 30 hectares in a convenient location for the Kazakh terminal in the port and invest in its construction,” said Ali Akbar Ehsani.
In response, Deputy Prime Minister Zhumangarin invited the Iranian company to participate in the first international transport and logistics forum “North – South”, scheduled for the end of July in Aktau (Kazakhstan), to discuss the project with potential Kazakh partners.
