Uzbekistan, Pakistan View Termez-Mazar-I-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar Railroad Raising
Date
6/14/2024 3:09:03 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, June 14. Uzbekistan and
Pakistan discussed Termez-Mazar-i-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar railroad
construction project, Trend reports.
The issue was reviewed at a meeting between Uzbekistan's
Minister of transport Ilkhom Mahkamov with Ambassador of Pakistan
to Uzbekistan Ahmad Farooq.
During the meeting, the sides discussed matters of cooperation
and development between the two countries in the field of
transportation.
Both parties noted the need to develop multimodal transportation
through the territory of Afghanistan in order to increase the
volume of cargo transportation between Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the administrations of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan signed a road map for the building of the
Termez-Mazar-I-Sharif-Kabul-Peshawar railway in February 2021.
According to the calculations of the participants in the
project, with a preliminary cost of about $5 billion, the new
transport corridor with a transit potential of up to 20 million
tons of cargo should connect the countries of Europe, Russia,
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and further the states of
Southeast Asia.
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