Afghan Goods to be Exported to China via Railway
The first train carrying Afghan goods will leave northern Balkh province to China in less than a week.
The first train carrying Afghan goods will leave northern Balkh province to China in less than a week.
Sher Ahmad Sepahizada, head of provincial chamber of commerce and industries said that the first train carrying 35 to 40 containers of talc stones, carpets and dried fruit would depart to China in less than a week.
The train passes Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to arrive in Chinese soil within 20 days.
Chinese goods came by the first train to Afghanistan in September 2016.
The train imported Chinese goods, would have to go back with empty wagons, and now they will carry Afghan goods in return.
The lack of modern scan machineries in Uzbekistan and costume problems in the past hampered import and export between Afghanistan and China via railway.
“President Ashraf Ghani in his recent visit to Tashkent spoke with Uzbek officials to solve the problems and from now Afghan goods will be sent to China via Central Asian states,” Sepahizada added.
Last year, 1,300 tons of peanuts were exported to China via an air corridor costing 45 million dollars.
China is also counted as a good market for Afghan saffron.
