Karg: Necessary to increase container traffic along East-West Corridor

A working group created under the project “Promoting Green Ports and Connectivity in the Caspian Sea Region”, which is under implementation by the Baku International Sea Trade Port, together with the OSCE, has held a regular meeting, Report informs referring to the Baku port.

Members of the working group, combining state and private structures of Azerbaijan’s transport industry, held an exchange of views with Thomas Karg, a member of the Supervisory Board of Rail Cargo Group, the freight division of the Austrian Federal Railways, about the company’s activities in global transport corridors.

The sides also discussed increasing cargo flows and development of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (Middle Corridor) in this regard.

The working group was informed about the need to increase transportation in the East-West direction to 1.5 million containers per year. The current number of containers transported between Europe and China is 600,000.

This year, the Chinese government plans to launch 150 trains from Xi’an through the Baku port along the Middle Corridor and Turkey to Europe.

The meeting participants also decided to attend the next meeting of the working group of leading logistics and transport companies of Europe, Turkey, and Kazakhstan.

Then, the Baku port and the Rail Cargo Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The document was signed by Taleh Ziyadov, general director of the Baku port, and Thomas Karg.