TRAINING WORKSHOP ON CONTAINERISATION TRENDS AND CUSTOMS CLEARANCE

FOR REGULAR BLOCK TRAIN TRANSPORTATION

BAKU – 17 APRIL 2012

Speech of National Secretary of Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Commission

TRACECA

Mr. Akif Mustafayev

EUROPE ASIA

NEAR

EAST

PERSIAN

GULF

SCANDINAVIA, BALTICS & RUSSIA

NORTH

SOUTH

Black

Sea

Mediterranean

Sea

Mersin

Bosporus Caspian

Sea

&

KAZAKHSTAN

TURKMENISTAN

BAKU

BOYUK KESIK

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC

OF IRAN

RUSSIAN

FEDERATION GEORGIA

REPUBLIC OF

AZERBAIJAN

CASPIAN

SEA

ALYAT

SEA

PORT

ALYAT

SEA

PORT KARS ISTANBUL

MARABDA

BOYUK KESIK

CASPIAN

SEA

BATUMI

POTI

ILYICHEVSK

AKHALKALAKI

PRESIDENTS OF AZERBAIJAN, GEORGIA AND TURKEY AT THE SOLEMN OPENING CEREMONY OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF BAKU-TIBILISI-KARS RAILWAY

СONSTRUCTION OF BAKU-TIBILISI-KARS RAILWAY

СONSTRUCTION OF BAKU-TIBILISI-KARS RAILWAY

ALYAT

SEA

PORT

KARS

BOYUK KESIK AKHALKALAKI MARABDA

CASPIAN

SEA

• The completion of the construction of Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway is

expected by the end of 2012. The railway is 98 km long, with 68 km

within Turkey and 30 km within Georgia.

• By this time, the reconstruction of 503 km long Baku-Georgian

border railway route will also be carried out.

• Thus the region of Middle and Central Asia will be for the first time

connected by direct rail links without transshipment through

Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to Europe.

• Railway trains moving from China and Kazakhstan through Central

Asia, the Caspian region, Baku and Tbilisi will be able to get to

Istanbul and then proceed to Europe through the Bosporus tunnel.

ALYAT

BAKU

BOYUK KESIK

REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN

• The new Baku International Sea Trade Port Complex will be constructed in three stages.

• An important feature of the future port is an international logistics center, as proposed by the EU TRACECA project "International Logistics Centers for Western NIS and the Caucasus".

• The port plans to build 11 ferry bridges, six of which will be built in the first stage until 2014.

• The construction of the port, which is supposed to meet international standards, will be completed in 2015.

International Eurasian transport corridors

TRACECA - 4577 km (main axis).

North-South - 6978 km (on the territory of Russia) + 5853 km branch lines;

Trans-Siberian Railway - 9200 km (on the territory of Russia) + 17732 km

branch lines;

Southern Rail Corridor - 11 700 km (main axis).

TRACECA: Eastern Europe - Central Asia via the Black Sea,

the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, Aktau - Dostyk:

The distance from the port of Poti to the railway station Boyuk-Kesik is 395 km;

The distance from the railway station Boyuk-Kesik to Baku is 503 km;

The distance from Aktau to Baku by sea is 468 km;

The distance from Aktau to Dostyk is 2878 km;

The distance from Baku to Istanbul is 2512 km.

The distance from the border crossing between Kasakhstan and China (Dostyk) to the

border between Georgia and Turkey is 4244 km;

The distance from the border crossing between Kasakhstan and China (Dostyk) to

Istanbul is 6756 km;

The distance from Bulgaria to London is 2304 km.

The distance from the border crossing between Kasakhstan and China (Dostyk) to London is 9060 km.