In a meeting with his colleagues, Mullah Bakhtur Rahman Sharaft, the general director of the Afghanistan Railway Department, emphasized on the development of bilateral railway cooperation, and the Iranian side assured the increase of traffic through the 3rd section of the Khaf-Herat railway line.

Design and construction of the 43 km first phase of the fourth section of the railway being built from Iran to Herat was approved by the National Procurement Commission at its meeting on February 18.