Azerbaijan is rapidly modernizing its logistics and transport infrastructure to cement its role as a key hub on major international trade routes.

The Baku International Sea Port, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC and part of AZCON Holding, handled a total of 6.108 million tons of cargo in the first nine months of 2025 — its best performance in 22 years.

Work is in progress to boost the capacity of the Baku Sea Port from 15 million tons to 25 million tons, Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov announced.

On April 9, Shahin Mustafayev, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Co-Chair of the State Commission on Economic, Trade, and Humanitarian Cooperation between Azerbaijan and Iran, along with Farzaneh Sadegh, the Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development and Co-Chair of the Commission from Iran, visited the Baku International Sea Trade Port, accompanied by delegates from both countries.

At the 29th UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, a historic agreement was signed, marking a new phase in the development of transport infrastructure in the region. The document concerns the implementation of a large-scale project to create an intermodal freight terminal at the Baku International Sea Trade Port in Alat. The signatories included Taleh Ziyadov, Director-General of the Baku Port; Nurlan Sauranbayev, Chairman of the Board of Kazakhstan Railways; and Yuan Xiaojun, Director-General of Xi'an Free Trade Port Construction and Operation Co., Ltd. The signing ceremony was attended by Ruslan Alihanov, Director-General of the Azerbaijan Investment Holding, and Nurlan Zhakuov, Chairman of the Board of Samruk-Kazyna JSC.

By Tural Heybatov

During the 29th UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, an agreement was signed to implement a project for the establishment of an intermodal cargo terminal at the Baku International Sea Trade Port in Alat.

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and China have formed a joint venture to build a new Intermodal Cargo Terminal at Baku Port.

Leading Brazilian private companies, as part of the delegation from the National Confederation of Industry of Brazil (CNI), will negotiate with the management of the Baku International Sea Trade Port (BISTP) certified as a Green Port by the UN maritime organization, within the COP2.

The Volgodonsk small artillery ship and the Anatoly Gujvin hydrographic vessel of the Caspian Flotilla of the Russian Navy, which were in Azerbaijan on an unofficial friendly visit, departed from the port of Baku on June 30, News.Az reports, citing Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defence.