{"id":6032,"date":"2014-11-23T20:41:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2014-11-23T20:41:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T20:41:29","slug":"india-iran-and-the-port-of-chabahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/india-iran-and-the-port-of-chabahar\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Iran and the port of Chabahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><q>Indian authorities initially planned to build a railway line from Chabahar to Zaranj, an Afghan town about 880 km away, so as to link up with the Zaranj-Delaram highway built by the Indians in Afghanistan. Once the [Indian] Railway Ministry got into the act, it assigned its external development wing, the RITES, to do a feasibility study of the project. A team of RITES came up with the findings that it would cost roughly a million dollar per km to lay the railway line and to make it economically viable, the railways would have to carry at least a million tonnes of cargo per month. The fact that the present port facility in Chabahar was not even off-loading 2 million tonnes of cargo per year and that it could take almost a decade more to reach the required tonnage for the Indian railways made the entire project unviable, even if the Indian government agreed to spend about $850 million to lay the railway track. So the project was almost shelved.<\/q><\/p>\n<p>[more&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasiareview.com\/27102014-india-iran-story-chabahar-analysis\/#.VE9dH3iuEo0.twitter\">India, Iran And The Story Of Chabahar<\/a>, by Ravi Joshi, Observer Research Foundation, Eurasia Review, 27 October 2014.<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian authorities initially planned to build a railway line from Chabahar to Zaranj, an Afghan town about 880 km away, so as to link up with the Zaranj-Delaram highway built by the Indians in Afghanistan. Once the [Indian] Railway Ministry got into the act, it assigned its external development wing, the RITES, to do a [&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],"tags":[282,83,85,283],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-chabahar","tag-india","tag-iran","tag-zaranj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","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=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}