According to Iraf News Agency, quoting IRNA, Mostafa Reza’ei said on Monday; “recently, the trend of transporting goods to Afghanistan has been upward, with exports and transit to the country reaching nearly 100,000 tons in January, compared to lower volumes in the initial months of the year.”
He added: “if the current trend of exports and transit on the Khaf-Herat railway continues, we can predict that by this time next year, over 1.2 million tons of goods will be transported and transferred through this route.” The CEO of the Afghanistan Rail Development Consortium continued; “the main export and transit goods leaving through the Khaf-Herat railway border in the past 10 months have been: Type 2 construction cement, iron and steel, tiles, diesel fuel, foodstuffs, and chemicals, in that order.”
Reza’ei mentioned that the volume of imports and transit entering through this railway route is very low.
He stated; “the increasing interest of traders in this railway route, as well as the activity of a non-governmental sector in the form of a consortium in both countries, have been among the factors contributing to the growth and surge in commercial activity on the Khaf-Herat railway route in this short period.” He also said; “the ‘Robat Pryan’ railway station near Herat city is expected to be launched by the end of the year, and it is predicted that with the opening of this station, the transportation of goods to Herat city will increase significantly.”
Last year, approximately 60,000 tons of export and transit goods were transferred from Afghanistan through the Khaf-Herat railway and the “Shamtigh” border crossing in Khaf County.
