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Azerbaijan to Dramatically Increase Cargo Transport: Government’s Forecast

Business Materials 4 November 2008 16:36 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, 4 November / Trend Capita, corr. S.Aliyev / In 2009, about 213.4mln tons of cargo are planned to transport against 190.7mln tons in 2008, the state budget forecast fro 2009-2012 said. In 2010. the index will equal 226.9mln tons, in 2011 - 243.5mln tons and in 2012- 262.1mln tons of cargo.

In 2009, some 1.6mln tons of different cargos will be transported by railway transport (against 29.4mln tons in 2008), automobile transport - 93.8mln tons (against 87.3mln tons in 2008-м), sea transport - 13.2mln tons (against 12.1mln tons in 2008) and air transport - 0.05mln tons (against 0.04mln tons in 2008 -м).

The Baku International Sea Trade Port will process 6.4mln tons cargo in 2009 (against 6.1mln tons in 2008).

Transport type

Change unit

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Total volume of cargo transport  

mln.tons

190,7

213,4

226,9

243,5

262,1

Railway

mln.tons

29.4

31.6

34.7

39.9

47.9

Automobile transport

mln.tons

87.3

93.8

101.3

110.4

121.4

Sea transport

mln.tons

12.1

13.2

14.4

15.7

16.7

Air transport

mln.tons

0.04

0.05

0.05

0.05

0.05

Baku Sea Port

mln.tons

6.1

6.4

6.8

7.2

7.7

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