Chabahar-Zahedan Rail Project Progresses by 48%

With an investment of 12,000 billion rials ($41 million), the 628-kilometer railroad project connecting the southeastern port city of Chabahar to the eastern city of Zahedan near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan witnessed a 48% physical progress, the deputy head of the Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructures Company said on Wednesday.
Noting that 70% of the excavation works of the project have been completed, Abbas Khatibi added, “This large-scale project has been split into northern and southern parts that form eight sections. The southern part is 312 kilometers long and the northern part 316 kilometers,” the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development's news portal reported.
“Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami inaugurated the track-laying operation from Chabahar Port on Wednesday. The track-laying from Zahedan started three months ago and so far 32 kilometers of the railroad have been completed. A total of €300 million have been allocated to this project from the resources of the National Development Fund of Iran, of which we have received €100 million.”