MNA � Over 40,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) were loaded and unloaded in Shahid Bahonar Port, in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan province, in the first 10 months of the current fiscal (through Jan. 21), a provincial official affiliated to Iran�s Ports and Maritime Organization said.

�The figure shows the strategic port has handled 32% more TEUs in the past ten months in comparison to the similar period of last year,� Hamidreza Mohammad Hosseini, the director general of Shahid Bahonar Port said on Monday.

The cabotage of non-oil goods in the port amounted to 112,000 tons over the same span, registering a 38% hike year on year.

Shahid Bahonar is one of the most active southern ports of Iran for both passenger and freight transport. The port enjoys a strategic position due to its proximity to the Persian Gulf littoral states and the Iranian islands of Qeshm and Kish.