BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 10
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
Lithuania can offer Azerbaijan a safe, fast and inexpensive transportation of Azerbaijani goods to Europe and the Scandinavian countries, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Egidijus Meilūnas told Trend.
The vice-minister noted that Lithuania is an important transit country in the East-West and North-South transportation corridors.
“One of the main tools for increasing cooperation possibilities between Azerbaijan and Lithuania is an international combined train project - the Viking Train - that links the network of the sea container lines of the Baltic and the Black seas, the Mediterranean and the Caspian seas. Therefore, our country can offer Azerbaijan a safe, fast and inexpensive transportation of Azerbaijani goods, like oil and its products, to Europe and the Scandinavian countries,” Meilūnas explained.
The vice-minister went on to add that Lithuania has a well-functioning multimodal transport and logistics system, a well-developed railway network, a modern Klaipėda State Seaport and good roads. Klaipeda State Seaport is the northernmost ice–free port on the Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
“It is the most important and the biggest Lithuanian transport hub, connecting sea, land and railway routes from East to West. Klaipeda is a multipurpose, universal, deep-water port, which provides high quality service with 14 big stevedoring companies. Ship repair and ship building yards operate within the port as well as all types of marine business and cargo handling services. The annual port cargo handling capacity is up to 70 million tons. In 2020, the port handled 47.8 million tons of cargo,” he said.
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