Georgian Railway is expanding its container transportation services by launching a new block train from the ports of Batumi and Poti to Baku. The route will run along the Batumi–Poti–Tbilisi–Absheron–Sumgait–Alat corridor and will operate on a fixed schedule, linking Azerbaijan’s largest cargo terminals with Black Sea ports.
Negotiations between the management of KTZ, KTZ Express, and China Railway Container Transport (CRCT) were held at the headquarters of JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy. The Kazakh delegation was led by Deputy Chairman of the Board for Logistics E. Koishibayev, and the CRCT delegation was led by Chairman of the Board Yang Bin. Representatives of the joint venture Middle Corridor Multimodal Ltd. also participated in the discussions.
Kazakhstan’s Vice Minister of Transport, Maksat Kaliakparov, met with Georgia’s First Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Vakhushti Bagrationi, and Georgia’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Levan Diasamidze. The talks focused on strengthening cooperation in the transport sector.
KTZ Express organized the first container shipment of wheat flour from Kazakhstan to the United States. The product from Kostanay successfully arrived in New York and became part of a pilot project to introduce Kazakh flour under the Eurasian Legacy brand to the American market, where it is already available on Amazon and in retail chains.
AD Ports Group signed a contract with the Baku Shipyard (Azerbaijan) for the construction of two shallow-draft container ships with a capacity of 780 TEU each, specifically designed for operations in the Caspian Sea. The ships are scheduled to enter service in the fourth quarter of 2027, increasing container capacity and strengthening the trans-Caspian logistics corridor.
On September 8, Rovshan Rustamov, Chairman of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC (ADY), part of AZCON Holding, met with an American business delegation in Baku. The company’s strategy for developing international transportation routes was presented to the guests, emphasizing the growth of volumes on the Middle Corridor and the diversification of routes along the East-West and North-South axes.
From September 9 to 11, the BLACK AND CASPIAN FREIGHT FORUM 2025: CORRIDORS, CARGOS, INFRASTRUCTURE was held in Azerbaijan at the Four Seasons Hotel Baku. It was an international event that brought together 180 participants from 18 countries to discuss key trends in transport, logistics and international freight transportation.
On September 9, 2025, an event was held at the Absheron Logistics Center to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the launch of the China (Zhejiang)–Europe Railway Express route via the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), as well as the arrival of the Yiwu (China)–Baku train. At the ceremony, representatives of Zhejiang Province, the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of Azerbaijan, and the Chinese Embassy emphasized that the passage of the 237th block train, comprising 100 containers, demonstrates Azerbaijan’s growing role as a key transit hub connecting Europe and Asia.
The Port of Baku, which is part of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC and is part of the AZCON holding, handled about 70 thousand TEU in the first eight months of 2025. This figure is 48% higher than the same period last year, when 47.1 thousand TEU were handled.
According to the head of the department of the Center for Strategic Studies of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Turhan Dilmas, the capacity of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line will more than triple by 2034 – from the current 5 million to 17 million tons of cargo per year.
