Afghanistan’s acting Industry and Trade Minister Nooruddin Azizi told Reuters that Russia and Afghanistan plan to build a logistics center for oil transit to South Asia, involving Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, in its northwestern Herat province.

Because of tensions with the West, it may be judged strategically unreliable to continue maritime exports to the Indian Ocean Region over the Baltic, Black, and Mediterranean Seas. For this reason, it is necessary to pioneer a more dependable alte...