BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 27. Azerbaijan and Russia are opening up new opportunities for cooperation in the field of transport and logistics, the Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev said, Trend reports.
Mustafayev made the remark at a plenary meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation between the two countries in Baku.
According to him, the rapid growth of road transport necessitates improving checkpoints at the state border.
"We attach priority importance to the development of the North-South transport corridor. The launch of the project at full capacity will contribute to the development of the region and the growth of trade and transit," the official said. "There are good opportunities arising from the trilateral statement of the heads of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia [signed on November 10, 2020, following the Second Karabakh War] to open transport communications and create new infrastructure routes, which is in the interests of all countries in the region."
He noted that activities to synchronize the work of checkpoints on the Russian-Azerbaijani border are underway.
"Timely completion of work on the reconstruction and expansion of the Yarag-Kazmalyar-Samur checkpoint will give an additional impetus to the positive dynamics of our foreign trade turnover," Mustafayev further said. "The increase in the number of lanes for the movement of freight transport to six at the Yarag-Kazmalyar-Samur checkpoint made it possible to increase the throughput capacity of the busiest checkpoint between our countries."
"Statistics of recent years have shown an increase in both bilateral and transit traffic. At the same time, there is a serious shortage of permits for Azerbaijani carriers," added the official.