The chairman of the Iran-Oman Joint Chamber of Commerce announced that a new shipping route between Iran’s Khorramshahr Port and Oman’s Sohar Port is scheduled to be launched on December 30.
“The Iran-Oman Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mining and Agriculture identifies the obstacles and provides the infrastructure for developing exports between the two countries,” the chairman of the Iran-Oman Joint Chamber of Commerce Mosen Zarabi.
“Iran and Oman will launch the shipping route between Khorramshahr Port and Sohar Port on December 30 and another route between Chabahar and Sohar will also come on stream in the near future,” he added.
"According to our agreements with the Oman Free Trade Zone, Iranian companies can register a company in the country without the need to export goods," he went on to say.
"We have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Sohar Free Trade Zone which will increase the volume of Iran's date export to the country to 300 thousand tons a year if implemented," Zarabi said.