{"id":7086,"date":"2018-02-05T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2018-03-25T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T20:06:34","slug":"afra-signs-contracts-for-herat-and-balkh-administrative-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/afra-signs-contracts-for-herat-and-balkh-administrative-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"AfRA signs contracts for Herat and Balkh administrative buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Contracts for the construction of administrative buildings for the Herat and Balkh railway directorates were signed on 3 February 2018 by Afghanistan Railway Authority Director General & CEO Mohammad Yamma Shams and Mohsen Amin, Deputy Manager of State Corps.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Announcing the contracts on 5 February 2018, AfRA said construction of the administrative building for the Herat railway directorate would cost AFN 45,927,337.38 (about €533 0002<\/a><\/sup>), while construction of the Balkh building would cost AFN 43,451,155.21 (about €504 0003<\/a><\/sup>). Work is scheduled to start this month and be completed within 10 months.<\/p>\n

State Corps is a construction company which began by working on projects for the United State Army Corps of Engineers, and the expanded into the energy sector where it has woprked on high voltage transmission lines and other power distribution projects.4<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n

Herat province includes the Turkmenistan – Towraghondi railway<\/a> and the new line which is being built from Khaf in Iran<\/a>. Balkh province is home to the railway from Uzbekistan to Hairatan and Mazar-i-Sharif<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Administrative Building of Herat, Balkh Railway Directorate Contract Signed<\/a>, Afghanistan Railway Authority, 5 February 2018 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. XE Live Exchange Rates<\/a>, 5 February 2018 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. ibid ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. About Us, State Corps<\/a> ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Contracts for the construction of administrative buildings for the Herat and Balkh railway directorates were signed on 3 February 2018 by Afghanistan Railway Authority Director General & CEO Mohammad Yamma Shams and Mohsen Amin, Deputy Manager of State Corps.1 Announcing the contracts on 5 February 2018, AfRA said construction of the administrative building for the […]<\/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":[277,233,81],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-afra","tag-balkh","tag-herat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","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=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}