Iran to Launch Regular Shipping Line to Japan Soon: Official
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Managing Director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) Mohammad Saeidi said the country plans to establish a regular shipping line to Japan in the near future.
Addressing a ceremony in Tehran on Monday, Saeidi pointed to the removal of anti-Iran sanctions back in January, saying that during the sanctions era, there was only one active shipping line from the southern port city of Bandar Abbas to East Asia.
He added that it developed after the removal of the embargos and now shipping lines to South Korea, Singapore and China are permanently active.
The official went on to say that a new shipping line to Japan will be launched in the next few weeks.
There has been a new wave of interest in ties with Iran after Tehran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) on July 14, 2015 reached a conclusion over the text of a comprehensive 159-page deal on Tehran's nuclear program and started implementing it on January 16.
The comprehensive nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), terminated all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran.
