Financial Tribune - A total of 197,474 tons of essential goods, including wheat, rice and livestock feed, were transported from the southeastern port of Chabahar to the mainland from Feb. 20 to April 3 by 7,586 trucks, an official with Sistan-Baluchestan Department of Road Maintenance and Transportation said.

The figure shows an 83% increase in tonnage and 68% growth in the number of freight transport trucks compared with the similar period of the year before.

�During the corresponding 45-day period of the previous year (Feb. 20-April 4), 4,514 trucks moved about 107,843 tons of essential goods from Chabahar to different domestic destinations,� Ebrahim Javshiri was also quoted as saying by the news outlet of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.