Iran: New Caspian Sea Shipping Lines Launched

The Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) and the Caspian Shipping Co. have jointly launched two new shipping lines in the Caspian Sea, TPOI Director and Iranian Deputy Commerce Minister Mahdi Ghazanfari said. The lines will ship goods from the Iranian ports of Anzali and Amirabad to the Kazakh ports of Aktau and Astarakhan and to Russia and will run regularly every two weeks, Ghazanfari said.