New economic corridor opened between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, China and Kyrgyzstan

The corridor would facilitate transportation of commercial goods from China to Afghanistan in two weeks compared to two months previously.

Bakht Rahman Sharafat, head of Afghanistan Railway Authority who signed the agreement for the corridor in Tashkent said that the corridor would also help reduce goods’ prices and taxes as well as generate jobs for thousands of people.

“With the implementation of this economic corridor the commercial commodities that previously took two months to reach the country by road from China will now reach the country in two weeks,” Afghanistan Railway Authority said in a statement. (ILKHA)