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BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 15. Azerbaijan is
working to strengthen the transport infrastructure and investing
significant resources in this, the Minister of Digital Development
and Transport of Azerbaijan Rashad Nabiyev said, trend reports.
Nabiyev made the remark during a multilateral meeting on the
Project for simplifying transit customs procedure along the
Trans-Caspian International 'East-West' Middle Corridor
(Trans-Caspian International Route) using the 'Single Window'
principle.
According to him, ASCO (Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company) and
the Port of Baku are the largest maritime structures in the Caspian
region.
'Besides, the Silk Way airline is also the largest cargo
airline. Last year, the growth in transit cargo transportation
amounted to 75 percent (to 11 million tons). We are working to
increase the cargo flow through the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) to five
million tons, and it's planned to complete the design of the second
phase of the construction of the Baku port by October of this
year,' the minister noted.
Nabiyev also noted that today the unloading of one vessel has
been reduced from 12 to four hours.
'Our transport infrastructure is practically ready for
integration with port, customs and other structures. To date, we
have already established similar work with colleagues from Georgia
and Kazakhstan, which allowed us to significantly reduce the
delivery time of goods,' the minister said.
He also said that the cost of delivery of one container from
China through Georgia to Azerbaijan was reduced from $5,000 to
$3,200 and this cost will remain fixed for the next three
years.
'Moreover, the Azerbaijani side, together with Boston
Consulting, is working on the digitalization of customs
procedures,' Nabiyev added.
The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) starts
from Southeast Asia and China, runs through Kazakhstan, the Caspian
sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and further to European countries. TITR
aims to coordinate interaction of all the participants of
transportation of goods and containers along the route from Asia to
Europe and in the reversed direction.
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