region and the automobile industry which is based here have a huge appetite for raw materials but rizza shakuri head of the state run railway for the tehran region says there's an alternative he talks about the eleven thousand kilometers of railway routes that cross to iran and about the same distance again is under construction. our goal is to be moving thirty percent of all freight by rail we're still a long way from that at the moment just over ten percent is travelling by rail if we're going to raise that we have to improve all aspects of our rail infrastructure . in a prison just south of tehran the two most important railway lines in the middle east cross each other one runs from the port of bandar bass on the persian gulf in the south to azerbaijan in the north the other runs east west from afghanistan to iraq the swiss trans invest logistics group wants to invest ferdie million u.s. dollars in the next two and a half years to build the country's most modern freight hub covering an area the size of eighty football fields. we are planning to will dry port you're. like a country. what's up