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KABUL (Pajhwok): A Turkish company has expressed its willingness to produce locomotives in Afghanistan in return for minerals. The Afghanistan Railways Authority (ARA) wrote on ....
Afghanistan Railways Authority (ARA) officials have said that operating contracts with neighboring countries for Afghanistan’s railway stations were formalized without taking the country’s best interests into consideration. According to officials, tens of millions of dollars has been paid annually to companies from neighboring countries to run the stations. ARA’s new leadership is now however working ....
(Last Updated On: December 20, 2020) Afghanistan Railways Authority (ARA) said that construction work on the Aqina-Ankhoi railway line in northern Faryab province is 85 percent complete and that the transport link is expected to be launched within the next few months.
In a post on ARA’s Facebook page, the agency said the initial phase was completed last year and that construction work got underway this year.
The new line from Ankhoi will connect to the existing railway line between Aqina and Atamyrat in Turkmenistan, which was officially opened in November 2016.
This line will eventually form part of a railway corridor through northern Afghanistan, and is part of government’s greater project to construct and operate an eventual network of railway lines around the country in order to connect directly with other Central Asian and European countries. ....