Iran Tests New Trade Corridor To Ship Russian Goods to India

The port city of Astrakhan.

Photographer: Andrey Borodulin/AFP/Getty Images

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Iran’s state-run shipping company said it started its first transfer of Russian goods to India, using a new trade corridor that transits the Islamic Republic, an Iranian port official said.