{"id":223386,"date":"2026-07-26T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/223386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:19:08","slug":"syria-launches-major-highway-restoration-plan-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/223386\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria launches major highway restoration plan &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-26T12:00:05+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Damascus<\/p>\n<p>Syria is moving ahead with plans to rehabilitate several<br \/>\nmajor highways to modernize its network and strengthen domestic and<br \/>\ncross-border connectivity, the head of the General Establishment for Road<br \/>\nTransport said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Director General Moaz Najjar said the projects will<br \/>\nfacilitate the movement of goods and agricultural and industrial products<br \/>\nbetween Syrian provinces, reduce obstacles to land transport, and lower<br \/>\nshipping costs. He added that upgrading the road corridors will increase<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Damascus-seeks-measures-to-restore-Syrian-products-in-Iraq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transit<\/a> traffic with neighboring countries, boosting regional and domestic<br \/>\ntrade while enhancing competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Najjar said Jordan, Turkiye, Iraq, and the Gulf States will<br \/>\nbe among the main regional beneficiaries of the scheme, noting that the<br \/>\nNassib-Aleppo highway forms part of the international M45 corridor linking the<br \/>\nJordanian and Turkish borders.<\/p>\n<p>According to Najjar, work on the Nassib-Damascus highway is<br \/>\nexpected to take about 400 days, while work on the Damascus-Homs, Homs-Aleppo,<br \/>\nand Saraqib-Idlib road plan is projected to last around 500 days each. The<br \/>\nrehabilitation and expansion of the Damascus-Palmyra and Palmyra-Deir ez-Zor<br \/>\nhighways is expected to take approximately 900 days.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding commercial transport routes, he pointed out that<br \/>\nthe General Establishment for Road Transport is updating the economic<br \/>\nfeasibility studies for the North-South and East-West route projects ahead of<br \/>\ntheir implementation as toll roads under the build-operate-transfer (BOT)<br \/>\nmodel, aiming to improve commercial transport infrastructure and enhance<br \/>\nfreight movement across Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-26T12:00:05+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Damascus Syria is moving ahead with plans to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[152,49367,16688,95,64029],"class_list":["post-223386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-breaking","tag-rehabilitation","tag-roads","tag-syria","tag-syria-launches-major-highway-restoration-plan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116986246807210637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}