Overview:
Khomeini port is located in the downstream of ghazaieh River in the southwest coast of Iran, about 45N miles away from the estuary and on the north side of the Persian Gulf. It is the main foreign trade port newly built by Iran in 1972, 80km away from Abadan, the main oil refining center of Iran in the west, and 80N miles away from Kharg, the oil transportation port in the south.The port is about 110km away from the airport, with regular flights.It has a temperate continental climate with northwest wind prevailing.The annual average temperature is 18-30 ℃, the highest is 46 ℃ and the lowest is 1 ℃.The annual average rainfall is about 250mm.The average tide height is 5.2m at high tide and 0.9m at low tide.The main berths in the port area are as follows: berths of wharf type: length of coastline: m maximum water depth: m general cargo: 19 3463 10.4bulk cargo: 15 2490 12container: 5 1051 12.1ro / Ro: 4 771 43 7775 loading and unloading equipment: various shore cranes, container cranes, mobile cranes, ship loaders, grain suction machines, forkliftsTugboat and Ro / Ro facilities, among which the maximum lifting capacity of shore crane is 90 tons, and the maximum power of tugboat is 2353kw.Handling efficiency: 1400 tons of grain per hour, 175 tons of ore per hour.The container yard is 200000 m Λ and the barn capacity is 75000 tons.There are railway lines in the port area for direct loading and unloading.The depth of the anchorage is 17m.There are 18 transit warehouses in the transit area.The annual cargo handling capacity is 11 million tons.In 1992, the container throughput was 11000 TEU.The main export goods are ores and sulfur, while the import goods are mainly cereals and groceries.