Financial Tribune - Forty-eight companies have signaled their readiness to make investments in Chabahar’s Shahid Baheshti Port projects from March 21 to Nov. 21, indicating a 33% rise in the number of investment bids compared with the similar period of last year, Behrouz Aqaei, director general of Ports and Maritime Organization of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, said.

Noting that 150 foreign and domestic delegations visited Chabahar and 14 contracts worth over 10,000 billion rials ($78 million) were signed with private sector companies last year.