A railway has been relaunched to link Khaf in northeastern Iran to Rozanak in Afghanistan’s Herat Province.
The Indian government is sending another consignment of 20,000 tons of wheat to Afghanistan amid a humanitarian crisis in the county.
Iran’s trade with Afghanistan (non-oil exports plus imports) stood at 3,405 tons worth $1.66 billion in the past Iranian calendar year (ended March 20), according to the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA).
A total of 461,113 tons of goods worth $154.09 million were exported from Iran to Afghanistan through Dogharoun border terminal located in Khorasan Razavi Province in the last Iranian year (March 2022-23), according to a local official.
Afghanistan is expected to form a joint chamber of commerce with Iran in the new fiscal year that started on March 21, according to Khanjan Alokozai, a board member of Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI).
An official at Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) announced the inauguration of the country’s trade center in Afghanistan on Saturday.
As many as 70 Afghan businesspeople held B2B meetings with their Iranian counterparts in Tehran on Monday.
An Iranian trade center will be inaugurated in Afghanistan by mid-March 2023, Deputy Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi announced on Tuesday.
Afghan nationals accounted for half of Iran’s foreign investment in 2022 alone, stated Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the Iranian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan on Thursday.
Hafez Sadatnejad, the operator of a strategically important Khaf-Herat railway between Iran and Afghanistan, has said on Saturday that the two countries have agreed on the relaunch of the railway.