The Chabahar port in the Persian Gulf is an appropriate tool of expanding trade ties between Afghanistan and India, an official said on Tuesday. Debasish Mallik, deputy head of Indian’s EXIM Bank, said this in Mumbai where he…
A top Afghan diplomat has welcome the exemption of the Chabahar port from the biting sanctions the US has re-imposed on Iran. Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Mahmoud Saikal called the project a commercially viable gateway for…
Aimed at giving Afghanistan an alternative access route to the sea, the United States Tuesday said that it has given exemption to the development of Chabahar port by India. A day after the US imposed punitive sanctions on…
In defiance of fresh US sanctions on Iran, India says the strategic Chabahar port in southeastern Iran will be made operational by the end of next year. India's Minister of Shipping Nitin Gadkari said on Friday the government…
KABUL, India and Iran on Sunday discussed implementation of the trilateral agreement on establishment of International Transport and Transit Corridor at Chabahar, Iran. Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Dr. Abbas Ahmed Akhoundi, Minister of Commerce and Industries of…
The first phase of Chabahar also known as Shahid Beheshti International Port in Chabahar, Sistan-Baluchestan Province, was inaugurated by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a ceremony also attended by officials and dignitaries from 17 countries, according media reports.…
The first shipment of 15,000 metric tons of wheat from India has arrived in Afghanistan via the Chabahar Port in Iran, formally operationalizing the sea route, an official said on Saturday. Acting Agriculture and Livestock Minister Naseer Ahmad…
KABUL, Iran and India, will be operational by 2018, hopes India’s minister of transport, highways and shipping. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said during his visit to Tehran on Saturday: “We are keen on developing the Chabahar port and are hopeful…
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abdullah Abdullah said on Monday preliminary works to use the Chabahar port in Iran by Afghan traders had been completed but still some works remained. The CEO, while presiding over a meeting of the…
The Chabahar port in Iran, designed to lessen reliance of Indo-Afghan trade, is expected to open in a month, an Afghan diplomat said on Monday. Afghan Consul General in Mumbai Mohammad Aman Amin told reporters in the Indian…
KABUL Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) on Saturday said Afghan traders have not yet exported their goods through Chabahar port due to the lack of infrastructure facilities. Last month, Afghanistan, Iran and India signed a trilateral agreement on the…
KABUL and the Afghan government should pay attention to related infrastructure to benefit from the port and take necessary security measures on the Zaranj-Dilaram route. A lecturer at Kardan University, Qais Mohammadi, who is also a member of Mahmud Tarzi…
KABUL, India and Iran are expected to sign on Monday an economically important trilateral agreement on Chabahar -- a strategic port in the Gulf of Oman on Iran’s southern coast with Afghanistan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached Iran…
Joint investment in the Chabahar port of Iran is not only in the interest of Afghanistan, but it could bring peace and stability to the entire region, the governor of southern Kandahar province said on Tuesday. Dr.…
The Chabahar port in southeastern Iran can play a crucial role in Afghanistan’s economic and trade development as the closest and best access point to the Indian Ocean and Iran has devised serious plans to turn the port…
Iran’s consul general in southern Kandahar province Hameed Reza Karimi has said Afghan businessmen could export their goods and services to Europe and others countries via Chabahar port. The Iranian envoy expressed these views at a meeting…
