The chief executive of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Jabbar Ali Zakeri met and held talks with Taliban's Minister of Mines and Petroleum in Kabul to discuss bilateral cooperation and deepen strategic cooperation between the two countries in the field of rail transportation.
With the coordination made with Afghanistan Railway Company, the cargo exchange capacity will reach 100,000 tons per month in the very near future, Zakeri underlined.
Zakeri, who is also the deputy minister of roads and urban development, placed special emphasis on the key and infrastructural role of rail transportation in the economic development of Afghanistan, calling the construction of Herat-Mazar-i-Sharif railway as the first phase of Iran-Afghanistan-China Corridor.
Taliban's Minister of Mines and Petroleum, for his part, hailed the effective and outstanding performance of Khaf-Herat Railway in consecutive supply of Afghanistan’s required goods and welcomed Iranian proposal in this regard.
The two sides agreed the setting up the joint working group committees in order to formulate the operational structure of the railway project in the field of constructing rail and mines.
MNA