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Russia has despatched consignments for India this Saturday from St Petersburg which can journey to India through the Caspian Port of Astrakhan and Iranian Port of Anzali and from there to Bandar Abbas Port and thereafter to Western Indian ports to operationalise INSTC, ET has learnt.
“The consignments are two 40-feet containers of wooden laminates weighing a complete of 41 tonnes. The containers had been loaded at St Petersburg and are heading towards Astrakhan the place they are going to be loaded once more at Solyanka Port. They may then traverse the Caspian Sea to achieve Iran’s Anzali Port the place they’re scheduled to be transported to Bandar Abbas port metropolis in southern Iran through vans. The 2 containers will then be dispatched to India’s largest container port,” Dariush Jamali, director of a joint-owned Iranian-Russian terminal in Astrakhan, advised Iranian information company IRNA on Sunday.
The overall journey will take lower than 25 days, in comparison with the practically 40 days it presently takes to move items from Russia to India and vice-versa. Moreover decreasing time taken for commerce between India and Russia, INSTC is taken into account a viable choice for Indo-Russian commerce amid present geo-political challenges. INSTC, within the longer run, can be a substitute for the Suez Canal and Mediterranean dominated by some powers and Bosporus, in response to sources who didn’t want to be recognized.
Connectivity through Chabahar Port and INSTC topped the agenda of the Iranian overseas minister’s go to to India final week. There was a plan to hyperlink INSTC with Chabahar Port which India has assisted to increase and is getting used for connectivity with Afghanistan and Central Asia.
The INSTC is a 7,200 km-long multimodal transportation community encompassing sea, highway, and rail routes. It hyperlinks the Indian Ocean to the Caspian Sea through the Persian Gulf onwards into Russia and Northern Europe and provides the shortest connectivity route between them.
