{"id":24818,"date":"2026-10-27T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/uzbekistan-raises-freight-charges-afghanistan-shipments\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:45:18","slug":"uzbekistan-raises-freight-charges-afghanistan-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/27\/uzbekistan-raises-freight-charges-afghanistan-shipments\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan to raise freight charges for shipments to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbekistan Railways has announced that it will impose additional charges on freight to Afghanistan from Nov. 7, 2026, to prevent a decline in its revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Under the decision, the extra fees for rail transport will range from $67 to $109 per wagon, while road transport charges will range from $235 to $637, depending on the distance.<\/p>\n<p>The additional charges will apply to most goods transported and loaded through Uzbekistan to Afghanistan via the city of Termez, but wheat, petroleum products and gas will be exempt.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Uzbek media reported that in the first nine months of 2026, more than 323,000 Afghan citizens travelled to the country for business purposes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Uzbek National Statistics Committee, a total of 357,500 foreign nationals entered the country for trade during this period, up 10.8% from a year earlier. Afghanistan ranked first with 323,660 business travellers, followed by Turkmenistan with 24,196 and Tajikistan with 6,412.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbekistan will impose extra freight charges on shipments to Afghanistan from Nov. 7, 2026, while exempting wheat, oil products and gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24818","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\/24818","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=24818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}