The railway would connect the main German logistics base in Afghanistan, at Mazar-i-Sharif, with the town of Hairatan on the Uzbek border, where a bridge was erected by the Soviets in 1982 crossing the Amudarya border river, German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Saturday, Aug.
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This would enable a direct connection to the Uzbekistan rail network and to the Uzbek city of Termez, where the German air force has its main local logistics site for incoming supplies from Germany.
Germany has an agreement with Russia permitting it to transport supplies via rail through Russia to Afghanistan. The new link would make resupplying Germany's base in Mazar-i-Sharif, its largest in Afghanistan, less of a logistic challenge.
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No costing estimates for the project had been made yet.
The idea for the railway route dated back to Soviet times, when engineers proposed a 200-kilometer line from Hairatan via Mazar to Pul-i-Khumri, but this was never built.
(Deutsche Welle)
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