PTB Perse International Forwarding Co., Tehran, a subsidiary of the Swiss TransInvest Group, has won the tender for the concession to develop and operate Aprin Terminal 20 kilometers from Tehran. The contract was signed at Iranian Railway headquarters in Tehran on September 18 at an official ceremony.
The concession comprises a 25-year license for a BOT (Build – Operate – Transfer) operator model, with a three-year construction phase and 22 years of operations. With an area of approximately 450 hectares, Aprin is to become Iran’s biggest dry port and a modern rail logistics terminal with customs clearance and bonded warehouse. The PTB Group was awarded the contract for the first phase, the development and operation of a 55-hectare sector; the annual capacity will be at 400,000 TEU, the sum invested in the infrastructure of the area will amount to approximately USD 30 million.
“Despite numerous other international forwarders in Iran, PTB has been and still is the front runner in the development of a modern Iranian transport industry. With the easing of the sanctions, additional new opportunities are arising that we want to tap into. Thus, we have filed an application with the port authorities in Bandar Abbas to extend our terminal there; we want to add another 110,000 m² for new handling facilities and storage capacities”, says Parviz Golabi, Managing Director and Member of the Board of the PTB Group.
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