{"id":7518,"date":"2020-12-11T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2020-12-10T21:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:13:47","slug":"construction-of-herat-railway-stage-4-phase-1-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/construction-of-herat-railway-stage-4-phase-1-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of Herat railway Stage 4 Phase 1 launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As part of the opening ceremonies for the first three stages of the railway from Iran<\/a>, Mohammad Yama Shams, head of the Afghanistan Railway Authority, officially launched construction of Stage 4 Phase 1 of the route.1<\/a><\/sup> This will run for 43 km from Rozanak to Robat Paryan.<\/p>\n

Attendees included the Governor of Herat, various officials and elders. <\/p>\n

A plaque mentions Integra Construction KZ<\/a>, a Kazakh railway contractor which signed a contract to build this Section 4 Phase 1 of the line on 12 December 2019. The 43 km Phase 1 was to be be built in 16 months at cost of US$58.5m, funded by the government of Afghanistan. It will pass through the Ghorian, Zenda Jan and Enjeel districts and to reach Rabat Paryan.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Italy will provide a long-term loan to finance the future Stage 4 Phase 2, which will add a further 44 km and take the line to Herat airport.<\/p>\n

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  1. Afghanistan Railway Authority post on Facebook, 12:35 on 10 December 2020 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. First Phase, Section Four of Khwaf-Herat Railway Project Signed<\/a>, president.gov.af, 12 December 2019 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As part of the opening ceremonies for the first three stages of the railway from Iran, Mohammad Yama Shams, head of the Afghanistan Railway Authority, officially launched construction of Stage 4 Phase 1 of the route.1 This will run for 43 km from Rozanak to Robat Paryan. Attendees included the Governor of Herat, various officials […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[81,329],"class_list":["post-7518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-herat","tag-rozanak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518","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=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7527,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}