In the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (since March 2024), 1 million 50 thousand tons of goods were transported between Turkmenistan and Iran through the Sarash border. This is a 30% increase compared to the same period last year. "IRNA" writes about it.

About 600,000 metric tons of the total foreign trade on the railway border is cross-border. This is 55% higher than the corresponding period, Khorasan Province Railway General Manager Mostafa Nasiri reported. He also said that 526,000 metric tons of cross-border cargoes are exported from Turkmenistan. This accounts for 78% of transit freight traffic on the Sarahs-Bender-Abbas railway crossing.

Iran's export shipments were sent to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and other Central Asian countries. Cement and construction materials account for a large part of the exported goods, it is stated in the report.