{"id":18955,"date":"2026-08-02T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/02\/taliban-716000-tons-goods-transport-railway-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:16:18","slug":"taliban-716000-tons-goods-transport-railway-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/02\/taliban-716000-tons-goods-transport-railway-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Authorities Report Transfer of Over 716,000 Tons of Goods via Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Public Works has announced that in the month of Saratan this year, 716,300 tons of oil, non-oil, and other goods were transported through the country&#8217;s railway lines. According to a statement from the ministry, the majority of these transfers were carried out via the Hairatan port.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry stated that out of the total recorded transfers, 483,388 tons were transported through Hairatan, 60,546 tons through the Aqina port, 71,905 tons via the Turghundi port, and 100,461 tons along the Khaf-Herat railway line.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that part of these transfers consisted of exports, with only 2,838 tons of commercial goods, including pomegranate juice, exported abroad during Saratan. This figure represents a small portion compared to the total volume of transfers.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Public Works added that it is working to expand the use of railways and to facilitate easier transit for traders. Afghanistan&#8217;s railways are mainly connected to the neighboring countries&#8217; rail networks through northern and western ports and have become one of the main routes for importing oil products and commercial goods in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Public Works reports transport of over 716,000 tons of goods via Afghanistan&#8217;s railways, mainly through Hairatan port in Saratan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}