Amir Saeed Nooramin - Faculty of Maritime Economics and Management, Khoramshahr university of Marine Science and Technology Khoramshahr, Iran
Jafar Sayareh - Faculty of Marine Engineering, Chabahar Maritime University, Chabahar, Iran

Transit trade is a country’s foreign trade that passes through a third country’s territory prior to reaching its final destination. In view of Iran’s geo-strategic position and its role in exchange of goods as well as regional and interregional economic relations, the issue of transit enjoys great significance. Geographically, some of main international transit trades pass through Iran. Needless to say, having a strong transport system attracts huge benefits to the country. Firstly, this paper discusses and depicts different aspects of the International North-South transport corridor (I.N.S.T.C) and secondly, it evaluates the role(s) that port of Chabahar can play in the fore-mentioned transit route. The final objective of this paper is to introduce Chabahar as an international hub port in the Middle East

Transit Corridor, Chabahar, Hub Port, Transit Trade