“Azerbaijan Railways” (ADY) and China State Railway Corporation signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at developing international transport corridors and freight transportation. The agreement gives new impetus to relations between Baku and Beijing and opens up prospects for strengthening ties between China and Europe through the territory of Azerbaijan.
The partnership focuses on the development of transport operations on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) line, which connects the countries of the South Caucasus with Turkey and Europe. The companies agreed to expand infrastructure, increase container transportation across the Caspian Sea, increase the number of daily container trains and, in the future, increase transit to 10 trains per day.
Strengthening BTK as a strategic East-West route, ADY has already modernized the Georgian section of this line, which is key to the Middle Corridor, in 2023-2024. This is an important step towards strengthening Azerbaijan’s transit potential and the competitiveness of the route.