Streamlining the many administrative procedures necessary when ships enter or leave port is an important element of IMO’s work. And now, an important tool used by software developers to create systems for exchanging the relevant data electronically has been made available by the Organization online and free of charge.

The IMO Compendium is a reference manual containing data sets and the structure and relationships between them, that will enable the IMO Member States to fulfil a mandatory obligation (in place since April 2019) for the reporting formalities for ships, cargo and people on board international shipping to be carried out electronically and in a harmonised way.

Overall this helps make cross-border trade simpler and the logistics chain more efficient, for the more than 10 billion tons of goods which are traded by sea annually across the globe.

IMO is not the only organization dealing with electronic data exchange in maritime transport. But others, notably the World Customs Organization, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the International Standards Organization, have aligned their own data structures with the IMO Compendium to promote harmonization.

Director General of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime: Chabahar Port has the capacity to discharge 12,000 tons of goods and 2,000 tons of staples per day.

Behrouz Aghaee stated that given the high capacity of importing a share of the essential commodities of the country through the largest oceanic port of Iran, several follow-up meeting have been held to arrange the import of staple needed by the eastern provinces through this General Office and Chabahar port.

By holding numerous meetings and visiting of government officials, the Ministry of Commerce instructed two large state-owned companies to transfer 50% of their importehttps://freightcomms.com/files/d goods through the chabahar port; and since October this year we have witnessed the arrival of staple cargo ships at the port.

Aghaee added: Due to the proper infrastructure of unloading and loading and in order to prevent the deposition of goods, more than 70% of the unloaded staples have been discharged from the port. Transportation of staples through Chabahar port will reduce the prices and traffic for ships waiting for disembarkation in other southern ports of the country.

Aghaee added that Phase 2 of the Shahid Beheshti Port Development Plan is underway. Furthermore 30 pieces Strategic equipment including 9 offshore cranes, 13 pieces loading and unloading equipment have been assembled and operationalized in Chabahar port.