“Now we sell one kilogram of grapes for 200 or 250 Indian Rupees while we sold it for 80 Pakistani Rupees in Pakistan. If we send this fruit to Europe, we will sell one kilogram of it for at least 10 euros,” the ACCI deputy head Khan Jan Alokozay said at a transit expo in Kabul last Friday. It was first transit expo organized by private companies in the country. Deputy Minister of Transportation Fawzia Matin said the ministry will hold a joint meeting in the near future to provide further facilities for Afghan investors. “We are trying to resolve all the problems that we have in TIR – Transit International Route,” said Matin.
At the same event, Iranian officials stressed the need for strengthening trade relations between Iran and Afghanistan. “Iran sees the establishment of railway between Afghanistan and its northern neighbors in the benefit of the region and it supports the progress of the railway between the five nations,” said Seddiq Qasemi Zakeri, an advisor at Iranian embassy in Kabul.
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