{"id":7063,"date":"2018-01-07T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=7063"},"modified":"2018-03-25T20:28:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:28:04","slug":"hairatan-mazar-i-sharif-railway-operating-contract-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/hairatan-mazar-i-sharif-railway-operating-contract-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairatan &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif railway operating contract approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 December 2017 the National Procurement Commission approved nine contracts worth a total of more than 4.7bn afghanis,<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-7063-1' id='fnref-7063-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(7063)'>1<\/a><\/sup> including one for the the maintenance, operation and management of the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-to-mazar-i-sharif\/\">Hairatan to Mazar-i-Sharif<\/a> railway.<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-7063-2' id='fnref-7063-2' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(7063)'>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>No further details are given.  So far the line has been operated by the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/sogdiana-trans\/\">Sogdiana Trans subsidiary of Uzbekistan&#8217;s national railway UTY<\/a> under an initial contract awarded in July 2011 and then a three-contract awarded March 2015. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/asiandevelopmentbank\/19388100708\" title=\"42533-022: Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Project in Afghanistan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/449\/19388100708_693fe11860_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" alt=\"42533-022: Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Project in Afghanistan\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-7063'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-7063-1'> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khaama.com\/president-ghani-approves-new-contracts-worth-4-7-billion-afghanis-04077\">President Ghani approves new contracts worth 4.7 billion Afghanis<\/a>, Khaama Press, 19 December 2017 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-7063-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-7063-2'> <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gov.af\/fa\/news-234294\">\u06a9\u0645\u06cc\u0633\u06cc\u0648\u0646 \u062a\u062f\u0627\u0631\u06a9\u0627\u062a \u0645\u0644\u06cc\u060c \u06f9 \u0642\u0631\u0627\u0631\u062f\u0627\u062f \u0631\u0627 \u0628\u0647 \u0627\u0631\u0632\u0634 \u0628\u06cc\u0634 \u0627\u0632 \u06f4,\u06f7 \u0645\u06cc\u0644\u06cc\u0627\u0631\u062f \u0627\u0641\u063a\u0627\u0646\u06cc \u0645\u0646\u0638\u0648\u0631 \u06a9\u0631\u062f<\/a>, Office of the President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, \u06f2\u06f7 &#8211; \u0642\u0648\u0633 &#8211; \u06f1\u06f3\u06f9\u06f6 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-7063-2'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 December 2017 the National Procurement Commission approved nine contracts worth a total of more than 4.7bn afghanis,1 including one for the the maintenance, operation and management of the Hairatan to Mazar-i-Sharif railway.2 No further details are given. So far the line has been operated by the Sogdiana Trans subsidiary of Uzbekistan&#8217;s national railway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,114],"class_list":["post-7063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-hayratan","tag-mazar-i-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063","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=7063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7069,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7063\/revisions\/7069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}