The 1st shipment of Chinese commercial-transit goods arrives at Hairatan port

July 14, 2021

The 1st shipment of Chinese commercial and transit goods arrived at the commercial port of Hairatan on Sunday.

This shipment includes 51 containers of commercial-transit goods of the People’s Republic of China, which entered the country through the railway for the 1st time in the solar year.

 The cargo was loaded from the Chinese city of Urumqi and the Afghan Cargo Company transited the shipment to Hairatan port.

Officials at the port say, the shipment includes electrical appliances, medicine and cosmetics, various types of clothes, toys, and other commercial goods, and the transfer of commercial goods from Hairatan port indicates an improvement in the country's ports.

Afghanistan shares a 137-kilometer border with the Republic of Uzbekistan, where most of Afghanistan's trade goods enter the country through the port of Hairatan. Hairatan port is one of the connecting points of the country with Central Asia.