Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have launched bus service between Khujand (Tajikistan’s Sughd province) and Kokand (Uzbekistan’s Ferghana region).
Uzbekistan’s national news agency UZA says the bus departs from Khujand at 8:00 am and the travel time is 3 hours.
The fare is 100,000 sums (equivalent to 9.00 US dollars).
A regular meeting of the Tajikistan-Uzbekistan joint commission on international road traffic that took place in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, on January 12, in particular, discussed the issue of full resumption of bus traffic between the cities of the two countries, which had been disrupted after the coronavirus pandemic had been declared.
The bus service between the cities of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan was restored on May 15, 2018 after a 26-year interruption, but the Uzbek authorities restricted road connections with other countries on March 16, 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis. Uzbekistan began to gradually remove restrictions from September 1, 2021.
In October 2021, the bus service between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan was partially restored.
As it had been reported earlier, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin received Uzbek Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov on June 5 last year to discuss resumption of bus service between the Uzbek cities of Tashkent, Samarkand and Termez and the Tajik cities of Dushanbe, Khujnand and Panjakent as well as other major cities of the two countries.
