 In addition, the need and importance of a regular carriage of goods by sea and considering peculiar geographical characteristic, accessibility to open seas, with having had long water boundary and water ways to and from Iran made the necessity in initiating a research study to establish the first and biggest integrated national shipping lines.The result of the research study, which was started in 1961, was approved by the first general assembly meeting to establish Iranian National Shipping Company in August 1967 with the name of Aria Shipping Lines.Aria Shipping started its activity in 1967 by two small-size vessels with capacity of 1,000 and 1,550 tonnes in Persian Gulf area and 4 ocean-going vessels, namely, "Aria Sep", "Aria Far", "Aria Naz" and "Aria Gaam" with the total capacity of 61,252 tonnes that had been put into service between the Persian Gulf-Europe, Asia and America.