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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is a country on the Western coastline of the Caspian Sea and North of Iran. In recent years it has developed its energy resources and is a leading exporter of oil and gas. Its key seaport is its capital Baku which has developed into a regional trade hub between Asia and Europe.

Joint Declaration Eastern Partnership – taking the transport cooperation agenda forward

News – Joint Declaration Eastern Partnership – taking the transport cooperation agenda forward – June 6, 2019 (1) The European Union (EU) and...

Delivering on a stronger partnership: the EU and its six Eastern Partners agree to develop better transport links

News – Delivering on a stronger partnership: the EU and its six Eastern Partners agree to develop better transport links – Jun 6, 2019 Today in...

Port of Baku at the crossroad of global transport corridors

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) April 30 – The Baku International Sea Trade Port and state-owned Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure (BPI) Company will...

Baku Port signs agreement with Venlo transport hub in the Netherlands

Venlo, Netherlands (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Baku International Sea Trade Port (BISTP) has signed a memorandum of understanding with companies and...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev seeks investment during China visit

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is in China and has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, ahead of...

Kazakhstan’s Aktau port starts operating container service from Baku

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) April 19, 2019 – Kazakhstan’s Aktau port has started operating a regular container service linking its docks to...

International North-South Transport Corridor set to expand capacity

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – At a meeting of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) coordination council in Tehran,...

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, Turkmenistan to promote Black Sea-Caspian Sea multimodal corridor

Bucharest, Romania (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – The foreign ministers of Romania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkmenistan have signed a declaration for...

Russian transport projects that will help Azerbaijan’s ports

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – In February, the Russian government has published detailed information on Russian national projects...

EU-supported training on implementation of Maritime Labour Convention in Black and Caspian Sea regions

Press Release – EU Neighbours East – February 4, 2018 On January 30-31, 2019, 16 representatives of maritime authorities from countries in the...

60,000 TEUs via the Middle railway corridor between China and Europe in 2019

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 4, 2019 – Some 60,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU)’s should be shipped along the Middle Corridor in 2019,...

Caspian Sea cruises planned

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) 02.02.2019 – Azerbaijan and Russia are to develop sea cruise-based tourism between the ports of the five Caspian Sea...

World Bank & EU publish indicative action plan for investment in Trans-European Transport Network

Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) January 21, 2019 – The European Commission and the World Bank have co-authored an “Indicative trans-European Transport...

Azerbaijan’s Baku port handles first cargo transit of “Lapis Lazuli” route

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Azerbaijan’s Baku port handled the first cargo transit operation on the international route...

Port of Izmir to be connected to BTK railway

Izmir, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 9, 2018 – Turkey plans to connect the port of Izmir to the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway corridor (BTK) by rail, the...

Barcelona port not to launch cooperation projects with Baku harbour in near future

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 13, 2018 – Barcelona port does not see any possibility of cooperation with Azerbaijan’s Baku port in the near...

Port of Baku transships 2 million tons of cargo for first half of 2018

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) August 12, 2018 – Baku International Sea Trade Port CJSC has reported that in the first half of 2018 the volume of cargo...

Five countries sign convention on Caspian legal status

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 12, 2018 – The leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan have signed a new convention on...

IAPH comments the effect of developing dry ports on seaports

Tokyo, Japan (PortSEurope) May 22, 2018 – At the recent World Ports Conference of the International Association of Ports and Harbors in Baku,...

Anaklia Deep Sea Port becomes associate member of Trans Caspian International Transit Route

Anaklia, Georgia (PortSEurope) May 15, 2018 – Anaklia Deep Sea Port has become an associate member of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route,...

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