ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, February 2.
Turkmenistan is ready to invest in the Torghundi-Herat railway
project, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan,
Rashid Meredov, during a meeting with the country’s Deputy Prime
Minister for Economic Affairs, Abdul Ghani Baradar, the country's
FM wrote on his X account, Trend reports.
The meeting was also attended by Afghanistan’s Ministers of
Mines and Petroleum, Hedayatullah Badri, Water and Energy Mohammad
Younus Akhundzada, as well as Turkmenistan’s Minister of Transport
and Railways and the head of the Turkmengaz State Concern.
Meredov stated that practical work has already begun in
Torghundi, Afghanistan.
The Torghundi-Herat railway project is a strategic 113–120 km
rail, initiated in 2025 with $500 million in promised funding from
Kazakhstan. Designed to boost trade, it connects the Soviet-era
Turkmen border terminal at Torghundi to Herat city, forming a vital
link in the Lapis Lazuli corridor and reducing transit times to
South Asian markets.
