Port of Chabahar
| Chabahar Port | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Iran |
| Location | Chabahar, Sistan and Baluchestan Province |
| Coordinates | 25°18′01″N 60°36′46″E / 25.300278°N 60.612778°E |
| Details | |
| Opened | 1983 |
| Operated by |
 Aria Banader Iranian India Ports Global Private Limited (IPGPL) |
| Owned by |
Ports and Maritime Organization |
| Size of harbor | 480 ha (1,200 acres) |
| Land area | 440 ha (1,100 acres) |
| Available berths | 10 |
| Employees | 1,000 |
| Director General | Behrouz Aghayi |
| Statistics | |
| Annual cargo tonnage |
 2.1 million tons (2015) |
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Website chabaharport |
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Chabahar Port (Persian: بندر چابهار) is a seaport in Chabahar located in southeastern Iran, on the Gulf of Oman. It serves as Iran's only oceanic port, and consists of two separate ports named Shahid Kalantari and Shahid Beheshti, each of which have five berths.
Development of the port was first proposed in 1973 by the last Shah of Iran, though development was delayed by the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The first phase of the port was opened in 1983 during the Iran–Iraq War as Iran began shifting seaborne trade east towards the Pakistani border in order to decrease dependency on ports in the Persian Gulf which were vulnerable to attack by the Iraqi Air Force.
India and Iran first agreed to plans to further develop Shahid Beheshti port in 2003, but did not do so on account of sanctions against Iran. As of 2016, the port has ten berths. In May 2016, India and Iran signed a bilateral agreement in which India would refurbish one of the berths at Shahid Beheshti port, and reconstruct a 600 meter long container handling facility at the port. The port is intended to provide an alternative for trade between India and Afghanistan. This port is 800 kilometers closer to Afghanistan than Pakistan's Karachi port. The port handled 2.1 million tons of cargo in 2015, which is planned to be upgraded to handle 8.5 million tons by 2016, and to 86 million tons in the future.
In July 2016, India began shipping USD$150 million worth of rail tracks to Chabahar to develop the port container tracks and build USD$1.6 billion Chabahar-Zahedan railway built by India's Ircon International for which India pledged additional US$400 million and Iran allocated US$125 million in December 2016, thus taking the total allocation to US$575 million (out of US$1.6 billion needed for the rail route) till the end of 2016.
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