The Port of Baku has recorded
a serious increase in the turnover of containers and passengers in the first
half of 2018, the press service of Baku International Sea Trade Port CJSC said
in a statement July 11.
The volume of cargo
transshipment reached two million tons, 86 percent of which fell on the share
of transit cargo during first half of
2018. The largest growth rate was observed in the volume of
container traffic during this period.
Thus, 10,746 containers in TEU
equivalent were registered in 1H2018, which is 53 percent more than in the
corresponding period of last year.
Passenger transportation has
increased by 37 percent.
Some 19,965
passengers have used the services of the Baku port for the past six months.
Thus, 16,526 passengers (82.8 percent of total) traveled to Turkmenistan, 3,439
passengers (17.2 percent of total) to Kazakhstan.
The transshipment of rail cars
reached 21,960 units at the ferry terminal in the Alat village. As many as
9,409 wagons (42.8 percent of the total) were deployed in the
Baku-Turkmenbashi-Baku direction, 161 wagons (0.8 percent of the total) in the
Baku-Aktau-Baku direction, 12,390 wagons (56.4 percent) in the Baku-Kuryk-Baku
direction.
Some 9,512 multi-tonnage vehicles have used the services of the Baku port
for the past six months of this year.
Of these, 5,353 units (56.3 percent of the total) were deployed in the
Baku-Turkmenbashi-Baku direction, 4047 units (42.5 percent) in the
Baku-Aktau-Baku direction, 112 units (1.2 percent) in the Baku-Kuryk-Baku
direction.
The transshipment of crude oil and oil products through the oil terminal
increased by 30 percent to 280,000 tons in 1H2018.
The cargo transshipment potential of the port, which opened on May 14, 2018
with the participation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, is 15 million
tons in the first phase, including 100,000 containers per year. Seven berths of
12 existing ones serve dry cargo vessels, two berths serve ferries, and another
two berths serve vessels of Ro-Ro and Ro-Pax type. One berth is used for the
maintenance of the fleet of the port.
