Pakistan's ambassador announces a green customs corridor for Iranian traders at Karachi port

Samad Hassanzadeh, head of the Iran Chamber of Commerce, and Imran Ahmed Siddiqui, Pakistan's ambassador to Tehran, met at the Iran Chamber of Commerce on Monday, July 27, 2026 and discussed agreements on customs and border matters and on easing and speeding up trade between the two countries.

According to the Iran Chamber of Commerce, the Pakistani ambassador announced his country's plan to create a green customs corridor and a joint customs mechanism with Iran to resolve the problem of containers sitting idle at the port of Karachi.

Hassanzadeh listed the absence of efficient financial mechanisms, standards and quarantine issues, and the prolonged holding of containers at Karachi port as the main obstacles slowing trade relations between the two countries, and asked Pakistan to address them. He also said cooperation is feasible in energy, petrochemicals, food industries and transit, and stressed the role of ambassadors in removing barriers and providing the infrastructure needed to expand trade and investment ties.