Amirabad Port Explained

Amirabad Port
Location:Behshahr, Mazandaran
Pushpin Map:yes
Coordinates:36.85°N 53.365°W
Locode:IRAMP[1]
Opened:April, 2001
Operated:Port & Maritime Organization of IranPort & Maritime Organization
Berths:34
Leadershiptitle:General Manager
Leader:MohammadAli Mousapour Gorji[2]
Blankdetailstitle1:Deputy Of Marine
Blankdetails1:Habib allah Talebi
Blankdetailstitle2:Deputy Of Technical
Blankdetails2:Mehdi Aghapour
Blankdetailstitle3:Deputy Director of Port and Economic
Blankdetails3:Aliakbar Sayyad

Amirabad Port or Amirabad Special Economic Zone And Port (Persian:) is the largest port on the Caspian Sea. It is located in the north of Behshahr County, next to the peninsula and the biosphere reserve of Miankaleh in Iran.

The port has been designed in 3 phases, but until 2023 only the first phase has been fully operational.

According to statistics for unloading and loading of goods in 2020, this port is the fourth largest port in Iran, after Shahid Rajaei, Imam Khomeini and Qeshm port, and the largest port in Iran on the shore of the Caspian Sea.[3]

It is connected to the Iran Railway, benefiting from 15 berths with a capacity of 7.5 million tons and from the connection capacity of the North-South International Transit Corridor (INSTC).[4] [5] The port, with an area of 1060 hectares, is the largest port in northern Iran.[6]

In June 2023, a US intelligence finding reported that the port was used by Iran to supply Russia with both Iranian unmanned combat aerial vehicles (military drones) and equipment for building the Yelabuga drone factory, both for use in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]

Amirabad Port at a glance

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UNLOCODE (IR) - IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF . service.unece.org . 28 April 2020.
  2. Web site: Contact with Authorities - Ports & Maritime Organization(Amirabad Port) . 11 March 2022.
  3. Web site: Annual statistics of cargo unloading and loading by Iranian ports . 2023-02-03 . 2020-11-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201123183619/https://www.pmo.ir/fa/filepool2/download/c959984d98a27beb95749fd936da8c7ad60eee51ae2e2c6db1f6b35e833c3aa2 . dead .
  4. Web site: Phase 2 of AmirAbad Port Special Economic Zone opens/300 jobs to be created.
  5. Web site: Export from Amirabad port up by 35% - Mehr News Agency.
  6. Web site: Amirabad Port Projects on Fast Track . 12 April 2017.
  7. News: Madhani . Aamer . White House says Iran is helping Russia build a drone factory east of Moscow for the war in Ukraine . 22 April 2024 . AP News . 9 June 2023 . en.
  8. Web site: Amirabad Port . 2022-03-24 . 2021-11-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211129032330/https://www.pmo.ir/en/portsandterminals/iranianports/amirabadport . dead .