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KABUL (TCA) — The Afghan Ministry of Finance says Uzbekistan has pledged to fund the Herat — Mazar-e-Sharif railway project in Afghanistan, Afghan news agency TOLOnews reports. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC), a Eurasian rail alliance of Russian Railways, the National Union Belarusian Railway and national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Austrian company Rail Cargo Austria AG. The parties intend to develop relations in the field of organization of cargo rail transportation in containers on the route China – Europe – China on the railroads of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus. Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — Iranian embassy officials in Kabul say that the development of a railway system in Afghanistan will help boost the country’s trade with Iran and other Central Asian countries, and that in order to boost trade through its Chabahar port, Iran is working to connect Chabahar’s railway line to the railway network in Afghanistan, TOLOnews reports. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — A delegation of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), led by Vice President for Logistics Sanzhar Elyubaev, last week participated in the meeting of the Organisation for Co-operation between Railways’ (OSJD) Commission on Cargo Transportation in Warsaw, Poland. The meeting summed up the results of work for 2017 and agreed on the volumes of transportation of export, import and transit cargos by railway transport for 2018, KTZ’s press-office reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — To further increase the volume of rail transit traffic along the East-West transport corridor via Kazakhstan, it is necessary to increase the speed of trains on the entire route from the point of departure to the destination point to not less than 1200 km per day or more, Maksat Kabashev, vice president for development of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) national railways company, said last week at the International railway business forum "Strategic partnership 1520: Central Europe” in Vienna, held with the participation of heads of national railway companies, transport officials of the European Commission, representatives of transport, logistics, machine-building and construction companies of the EU and CIS countries, KTZ reported. Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — Officials from the Afghanistan National Railway Authority (ANRA) on February 14 said that the technical and economic survey for the establishment of the multinational railway project is about 50 percent complete. Some 880 kilometers of railway line will be built in Afghanistan and will connect Afghanistan’s northern regions to the west. Five nations including Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and China take part in the project, TOLOnews reports. Meanwhile, Sediq Qasimi Zakeri, the economic advisor for the Iranian embassy in Kabul, said his country strongly supports the establishment of the project between the five countries which will also cover Iran’s Chabahar and Bandar-e-Abbas ports. “We fully support this project, work has already been started on it, we hope that all countries in the region come forward for this project,” said Zakeri. Based on the agreement signed between the five countries in this respect, every member country has to establish a total of 2,100 kilometers of railway line within the next five years. “This project plays a vital role for regional connectivity, we are trying to wrap up the preliminary work,” said Bari Sediq, director general of ANRA. Economic experts have heralded the project as a milestone to further boost economic cooperation in the region. A preliminary agreement for developing the proposed China–Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan–Afghanistan–Iran railway line was signed in the Tajik capital Dushanbe in December 2014. The rail corridor aims to increase regional commerce and spur job creation along with larger trade volumes. This project connects China on one end and Iran on the other over a total distance of 2,100 kilometers, traversing Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. Over one thousand kilometers of the rail corridor will stretch through the Afghan provinces of Herat, Badghis, Faryab, Jawozjan, Balkh and Kunduz. The Afghan section of the rail line will be partially funded by the ADB and improve Afghanistan’s access to the Iranian ports of Chabahar and Bandar Abbas.
