{"id":2642,"date":"2010-05-16T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2010-05-16T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T19:00:43","slug":"eco-on-rail-corridors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/eco-on-rail-corridors\/","title":{"rendered":"ECO on rail corridors"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Regional Summit Meeting of Afghanistan and Neighbors<\/h3>\n<p>The Secretary General\u2019s statement<br \/>\n(Istanbul, 26th January, 2010)<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nIn the field of transport and communication, the Secretariat is currently working on the launch of the ECO truck caravan to run from Turkey through Iran and Afghanistan to Central Asia. A wing of this truck caravan will run from Pakistan to Central Asia through Afghanistan. Such effort, if successful, will add value to Afghanistan\u2019s competitiveness as a regional transit country with the estimated potential of 20 to 30 million tons of annual transit throughput to Central Asia, South Asia, Middle East and Europe.  Similarly, <strong>in the field of railways<\/strong>, to enable Afghanistan\u2019s effective exchange of goods and commodities with neighboring economies, the ECO is helping the country in connecting it to regional rail road system. Afghanistan\u2019s railway lines are projected to run along the main regional transit routes stretching through Iran, Pakistan and Central Asia. Specifically, the rail segment en route <strong>Shirkhan-Bandar-Kondoz-Mezare Sharif-Herat<\/strong> is being considered for construction. It will connect Afghanistan\u2019s rail system through that of Tajikistan with China\u2019s railway network.  A number of other projects\/activities are also being worked out\/planned for Afghanistan in the area of transport.<br \/>\n<cite>Source: <a href=\"hhttp:\/\/www.ecosecretariat.org\/ftproot\/Press_Rls\/2010\/Istan.sg.htm\">Economic Cooperation Organization<\/a> 2010-01-26<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional Summit Meeting of Afghanistan and Neighbors The Secretary General\u2019s statement (Istanbul, 26th January, 2010) [&#8230;] In the field of transport and communication, the Secretariat is currently working on the launch of the ECO truck caravan to run from Turkey through Iran and Afghanistan to Central Asia. A wing of this truck caravan will run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[57,85,99,114,165],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-eco","tag-iran","tag-kunduz","tag-mazar-i-sharif","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}