During the Iran-Syria Joint Committee on Port and Maritime Cooperation, Mohammed Rastad, the managing Director of PMO and the Syrian Deputy Minister of Maritime Transport agreed to consider maritime cooperation development, maritime training between the two countries.
In addition to the cooperation, the two countries will also use each other’s facilities, while private and public-owned maritime training companies should be encouraged to participate in mutual cooperation.
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In addition, the agreement highlighted the increase in maritime transport through the shipping lines of the two countries, and it was agreed that the shipping companies of the two countries would negotiate on this issue and announce final decisions to the relevant authorities of the two countries.
Conditions for the presence of Iranian port operators in the Syrian ports and the implementation of the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding between the port of Imam Khomeini and the port of Latakia are further discussed in the context of this memorandum.
The two sides agreed that the seventh meeting of the Joint committee on ports and Maritime Cooperation will be hosted by the Syrian side in the first half of 2021.
