{"id":10018,"date":"2016-07-20T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/07\/20\/antwerp-to-collaborate-with-bandar-abbas\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:56:15","slug":"antwerp-to-collaborate-with-bandar-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/antwerp-to-collaborate-with-bandar-abbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp to collaborate with Bandar Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement is for five years but has an option to be renewed. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at the headquarters of Ports and Maritime Organisation in Teheran, which is responsible for managing the ports.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the MoU mean that the port authorities of Antwerp and Bandar Abbas will join forces so that companies in both ports can collaborate closely once more and develop trade between the two regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we are restoring our trading relations with Iran, a country with great economic growth potential that is also a gateway to neighbouring countries,\u201d said Eddy Bruyninckx, who signed the agreement on behalf of Antwerp.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAntwerp is perfectly situated to support the further growth of trade with this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bandar Abbas accounts for approximately 90% of the incoming and outgoing containers of Iran and for nearly half of the 200m tonnes of freight handled by the 11 Iranian ports.<\/p>\n<p>The deal means there will be an exchange of information on statistics and port development projects, as well as collaborations in the field of training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antwerp Port Authority signed a collaborative agreement with Shahid Rajaee Port Authority, which controls the Port of Bandar Abbas in Iran, to develop trade between the two regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10020,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10018\/revisions\/10020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10018"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}