Final UN report describes repeated emergency repairs to ports and shipping

The UN mission found Iranian engineers, workers and companies able to rebuild transport infrastructure to standard quality. Imports of equipment and unavailable railway parts still required...

The final UN report found transport machinery and equipment losses greater than reported infrastructure losses. Wartime restrictions often made replacements costlier and lower in quality; most...

The report prioritized the Khorramshahr-Ahvaz railway, Abadan and Ahvaz airports, and border bridges. Additional rail capacity to Bandar Khomeini and Bandar Abbas was intended to ease bottlenecks...

The UN report described wartime shortages of maintenance and renewal investment across land transport. Correcting these deficiencies through modernization required foreign inputs, particularly foreign...

Iranian authorities considered air travel essential over long distances. The UN report found air-transport facilities insufficiently rebuilt, modernized or developed and identified substantial...

Information supplied to the UN mission put dry-cargo ship losses at 17 vessels lost and 18 damaged, valued at $201 million. Restoration of oil-cargo tonnage was reported complete at a cost of $498...

The UN report described a $225 million restoration project under way at Kharg Island. Commercial-port work included Khorramshahr reconstruction, Bandar Khomeini repairs and landside debris clearance...

Continued construction at Bandar Abbas had brought overall port capacity near contemporary needs. The UN report still called for urgent rebuilding at Abadan and Khorramshahr to improve geographical...

The report described reopening the Shatt al-Arab as essential to Abadan and Khorramshahr port recovery. Reported wrecks, unexploded ordnance and silt obstructed the channel; Iran estimated dredging...

The UN team understood that reopening the Shatt al-Arab required political agreement, followed by international help for finance, specialist equipment and personnel, wreck clearance and removal of...