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Iran starts transfer of Russian goods to India by using new trade corridor

Since Russia was sanctioned over its war on Ukraine, Iranian officials have been keen to revive a stalled project to develop North-South Transit Corridor that uses Iran to link Russia to Asian markets

The port city of Astrakhan
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The port city of Astrakhan

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Iran’s state-run shipping company said it started its first transfer of Russian goods to India, using a new trade corridor that transits the Islamic Republic, an Iranian port official said.

The Russian cargo consists of two 40-foot (12.192 meters) containers of wood laminate sheets, weighing 41 tons, that departed St. Petersburg for the Caspian Sea port city of Astrakhan, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said on Saturday, citing Dariush Jamali, director of a joint-owned Iranian-Russian terminal in Astrakhan.

The report didn’t say when the cargo, which it described as an initial “pilot” transfer to test the corridor, left or