Haalvosh news agency reported that some drivers of gas transport tankers who have loaded their cargo for transfer to the borders of Remaildan and Peshin in Pakistan are being left in limbo at the Star Gulf Oil Refinery in Bandar Abbas and that they have not been granted permission to leave customs.

A trade official also reported the halt of dozens of ships in the northern ports and that the cost of sea transport in the Caspian Sea has tripled.

Interview with Mahtab Gholizadeh, an economic journalist