{"id":2633,"date":"2010-05-17T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2010-05-17T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T19:00:03","slug":"hairatan-freight-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/hairatan-freight-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayratan freight terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army Strong Stories has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armystrongstories.com\/blogger\/chris-lecron\/afghan-railway-to-aid-economy\/\">comments from Major Chris LeCron<\/a> on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-05\/afghan-railway-to-aid-economy-and-nato-rile-taliban-update1-.html\" title=\"Afghan Railway to Aid Economy and NATO, Rile Taliban Bloomberg News, May 2010\">neat article from Bloomberg News<\/a>&#8221; about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-to-mazar-i-sharif\/\">Hairaton &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif railway project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><q>When we were there [at the Friendship Bridge], the rail line stopped about a mile down the road south into Hairiton.  Containers were downloaded off the rail cars by forklift or RTCH (rough terrain container handler, pronounced rech like throw-up).  Once downloaded, they are shipped by truck.<\/q>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Strong Stories has some comments from Major Chris LeCron on the &#8220;neat article from Bloomberg News&#8221; about the Hairaton &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif railway project. When we were there [at the Friendship Bridge], the rail line stopped about a mile down the road south into Hairiton. Containers were downloaded off the rail cars by forklift or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[25,79],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-bloomberg","tag-hayratan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}