Baku, Azerbaijan, March 18
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
Baku International Sea Trade Port transshipped 13,307 TEU [twenty-foot equivalent unit] containers in 2015, which is by 118 percent more than in 2013, the port's director general Taleh Ziyadov said.
He made the remarks March 18 during the reporting conference titled "Baku International Sea Trade Port: yesterday, today, tomorrow."
The number of passengers increased by ten percent in 2015 compared to previous years and was 10,707 people, he said.
"The volume of transit cargos transshipped by the port's main cargo terminal was 46 percent of the total freight traffic in 2015, and this figure was two percent in 2014," said Ziyadov.
Currently, some 85 percent of cargos are transit cargos, he noted adding that if the port transshipped over three million tons of cargo in 2015, it is expected that the transshipment volume will be more than six million tons in 2016.
Ziyadov added that as a result of the port's work, the country's state budget received over 4 million manats additionally, which showcases the development of Azerbaijan's non-oil sector.
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