One border, two trading worlds
Incheh Borun is the only land and rail customs post in Golestan Province, located in the Dashli Borun district of Gonbad-e Kavus on the Iran–Turkmenistan border. The rail route through it begins at Uzen in Kazakhstan, crosses the Kazakh–Turkmen frontier at Qyzylqaya, runs through Bereket to Etrek and Dashli Borun, and enters the Iranian network at Incheh Borun. From there it passes north of Gonbad-e Kavus and joins the Gorgan railway station and the national grid.
This line forms part of the East Caspian corridor connecting CIS states to the Persian Gulf and South-East Asia. It entered service in December 2014.
What the free zone offers
- Twenty-year exemption from income tax, from the date the operating licence is issued, for all economic activity in the zone
- Entry of goods and raw materials without customs duties or commercial profit tax
- Foreign investors may invest and register companies with up to 100% ownership
- Full guarantee of foreign capital and the returns on it
- A single, streamlined permitting process handled by the free zone organisation
- Facilitated export of goods and equipment from the zone
Capacity and outlook
The line was originally designed to move more than 3 million tonnes of freight a year, with capacity that can be raised towards 10 million tonnes. At national level, the Iran–Turkmenistan joint commission has reached preliminary agreement on raising rail freight capacity across Iran’s three border points to 6–7 million tonnes annually.
Plans are also under way to bring Ashuradeh Island and Gorgan International Airport within the zone’s boundaries, which would substantially expand its logistics and tourism capacity.
What we do with it
Ariamanesh Pars translates these advantages into operations: cost-effective routing, use of the zone’s exemptions, document management and customs formalities carried out at the very point your goods cross.