Iran wants its ships to use Russian waterways
By Nigar Abbasova
Iran, which reentered the global economy after the lifting of economic and political sanctions imposed against it, has called on Russia to provide Iranian ships with an opportunity to use Russian waterways.
Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanai announced about this while addressing a meeting with the director general of Volgograd River Port, Alexey Molojavenko, IRNA agency reported.
He said that the movement of Iranian ships on the Russian waterways is expected to give a stimulus to activate trade relations between the two countries.
The two countries have certain reasons for the expansion of bilateral cooperation, particularly in the sphere of transport, which also includes maritime traffic. The ambassador mentioned that cooperation in the sphere will promote growth of trade turnover between the countries.
The head of Iran-Russia chamber of commerce Asadollah Asgaroladi earlier said that the trade turnover between the two countries amounted to $1.5 billion in July, while the figure is expected to double by March 2017.
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