"At present, there is a high potential and capability in Iran for exporting maritime and ports engineering know-how," Allahyar said on Sunday.
He underlined that although maritime engineering is a rather young branch of knowledge in Iran, the country has a say and is a pioneering state in this field.
Iran is now almost self-sufficient in building ports near the country's territorial waters.
In relevant remarks in December, Managing-Director of the PMO Seyed Ataollah Sadr announced that the country has started building 300 small multi-purpose ports on the rims of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.
"As a first step, we have selected 300 geographical locations for constructing ports along the (Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman's) coasts and we are now through with locating the exact sites of 120 of them," Sadr told at the time.
He reiterated that 40 ports have, so far, been constructed each at a cost of $3 million.
Also in 2010, Sadr had noted that the capacity of container loading and unloading in Iran's ports is currently at about 4.4 million per year which will increase to 7 million by the end of 2015.
The current capacity of the country's ports is about 150 million tons per year, which will witness a significant rise by the end of the Fifth Development Plan (2010-2015), he added.
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Head of the Coastal Engineering Department of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) Mohammad Reza Allahyar voiced his organizations readiness to export engineering know-how to other states.
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