India is all set to start exporting to Afghanistan via the Chabahar port within two weeks, according to a report in Financial Tribune.

The report added that India plans to ship 35,000 containers of wheat to Afghanistan via the Iranian port in next two weeks.

From Chabahar, the shipments will be transported to Milak,  a border city on the Afghan border, through road route.

“In the first phase, 7,500 containers will be shipped,” Iranian news agency IRNA quoted Sakineh Ashrafi, an official at Sistan-Baluchestan Governorate, as saying on Tuesday.

The Chabahar port is yet to be fully developed and the work is going on to equip this port with world class infrastructure.

India, Iran and Afghanistan inked a trilateral deal last year to develop the Chabahar port and use it as a hub for transit of goods from India to landlocked Afghanistan.

On the eve of his visit to Iran, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari last week said that the Chabahar port will become operational by 2018.