Azerbaijan Airlines’ (Azal) said that its daily Baku-Dubai flights will now be serviced by its more advanced wide body Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and Boeing 767-300/300ER aircraft.
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ADY Container, the Azerbaijani railway company, has added a second vessel to ship cargo across the Black Sea. The vessel sails between the Georgian Port of Batumi and the Romanian port of Constanta and will increase capacity on the Middle Corridor.
On average, 294 wagons were loaded and 371 unloaded per day.
On June 3, the Georgian Ministries of Internal Affairs and Finance announced that all employees of the Border and Customs Department would begin operating each of the country’s physical border checkpoints continuously, in emergency mode, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China-Europe cargo transport is shifting to the south, but infrastructure in the Caucasus is still relatively underdeveloped.
Timing is everything, and sometimes you just get things right. That must be the feeling in Azerbaijan these days, where the expansion of the free-trade zone at Alat is on schedule to be completed in July.
LOT Polish Airlines has launched a new connection from Warsaw, which started on May 27. Onboard the national carrier’s aircraft we can now fly to the largest city in the Caucasus – Baku.
The Russo-Ukrainian war has had a direct impact on the status of the various China–Central Asia–Russia–Europe transit corridors that traverse Eurasia.
Kazakhstan and the Caucasus nations are looking at the Trans-Caspian transportation corridor with renewed vigor given the war in Ukraine.
Russia's war against Ukraine prompted international logistics companies shipping goods from China to Europe to pay increasingly more attention to the transport corridor through Azerbaijan.
The MoU was signed during a meeting between Azerbaijani Railways chairman Mr Javid Grubanov and the chairman of Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) Mr Andreas Matte.
A delegation from Georgian Railway joined counterparts from Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan on Wednesday in Ankara to discuss the project of the Middle Corridor of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, aimed to connect supply chains and logistics between China and Europe.
The delegation led by Chairman of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC Javid Gurbanov met with CEO of Austrian Federal Railways Andreas Matthä, the press service of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC reports.
The shift in the geography of container shipments due to the current geopolitical and economic situation has led to a reorientation of cargo flows from the west to the east, as well as to the south.
The Russo-Ukrainian war, the extensive sanctions against Russia that the West adopted in response, and the growing possibility that European border states will block east-west transit routes traversing Russian territory into Europe, including the so-called Northern Corridor of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), are all having far-reaching implications for the landlocked countries of Central Asia as well as the South Caucasus.
A China-Germany freight train was transported from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan on the dry cargo ship Maestro Niyazi, the Azerbaijani Caspian Shipping Company (ASCO) says.
In the midst of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Europe is looking for alternatives to Russian gas, it is possible to say that Azerbaijan may become a lifeline for Europe in terms of gas supplies.
Container transportation on the Middle Corridor increased by 28 per cent in the first quarter of 2022, compared with the same three months last year.
Kazakhstan’s delegation led by deputy head of the Presidential Administration – Special Representative of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for International Cooperation Erzhan Kazykhan paid a working visit to Baku, Kazinform correspondent reports.
The China-Europe Railway welcomed a new train connection between the Xi’an International Dry Port and Mannheim in Germany. The new multimodal service commenced on 13 April. It crosses the Caspian and Black Seas, passing through Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The Romanian port of Constanta will be the gateway to Europe.
Azerbaijan Airlines will resume flights between Baku and Berlin from May 29, AZAL says.
According to the press service of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL), the company will start operating flights to the capital of the Czech Republic Prague as part of its summer 2022 schedule.
The increasing dynamics of containers transported via the BTK railway were also stressed during the discussion, with the two officials reviewing cooperation in the fields of communication and information technologies as well.
The rail freight volumes passing through the Middle Corridor (via Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia) increased by 52 per cent last year. This surge is expected to be even higher this year, due to the increased interest in the corridor as an alternative multimodal route between Europe and China.