Iranian ports see record TEU volume despite US sanctions
Figures by Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) show there was a record volume growth in the country’s ports in the calendar year to late March despite a regime of US sanctions that impose penalties on parties involved in trade with Iran.
PMO figures cited in a Saturday report by the Fars news agency showed that Iranian ports had processed more than 3.083 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers in the year to March 20, an increase of 13% from the previous year.
The report said the figure was even higher than the total TEU volume reported by Iranian ports in the calendar year to March 2018, more than a year after Iran reached a landmark nuclear deal with world powers, known as the JCPOA, and was relieved of international sanctions on its economy.
The incumbent US President Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA during his first term in 2018 and imposed US secondary sanctions on Iran. That caused container operations in Iranian ports to drop to below 2 million TEUs in the year to March 2019.
The report by the Fars news said that the total loading and unloading of cargo at Iranian ports had reached nearly 235 million metric tons in the year to late March 2025, adding that non-oil trade had been responsible for 56% of the cargo processed in the Iranian ports over the same period.
Iran has seen a significant rise in international cargo transit passing via its ports in recent years. That has generated a stable source of hard currency revenues for the government while also helping improve the country’s relations with its neighbors.
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