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Russia will have a new transit transport corridor

04.08.2017
In Central Asia begins work on an ambitious transport project, which will affect Russia. News Agency Sputnik, Afghanistan and Iran are planning to build a railway that will connect the Iranian city have and the Afghan city of Herat. The project implementation will allow to establish direct communication with India, Afghanistan and Pakistan to markets in Central Asia, Europe and Russia, which will bypass the congested ports and the Suez canal.
As noted, Abbas Nazari, who served as Director for international Affairs of the Organization "Railways of the Islamic Republic of Iran", the new railway is of more strategic importance. It will become a transport corridor between China and Europe and to facilitate, accelerate and cheapen the exchange of goods among Asian countries. At the first stage of the project the turnover of freight traffic by rail will be about 5 000 000 tons per year. In future it will carry even more cargo. Also on the transport corridor planned movement of passenger trains. 
As to the question security organization, today it has ceased to be acute for Afghanistan. So, the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif is already associated railway line to Uzbekistan. Every year it transported millions of tons of diverse cargo, and yet no excesses in this direction were noted. 
Recall that in 2035, the planned launch of the Eurasian high-speed rail corridor, which has been dubbed the new "Silk road." It will bring together Beijing, Moscow and the largest logistics centers of the Old world. Trains along the corridor will move with a speed of 300 km/h Individual sections of high-speed railway will be launched in early explantation, so that the section between Beijing and Moscow can be fully ready for 2022-2023 years.
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