Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev and Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Farzaneh Sadegh discussed ways to enhance transport links between the two countries and advance regional transport projects.

The signing of a new memorandum on the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars (BTK) railway in Almaty may at first seem like another routine agreement between Azerbaijan, Türkiye, and Georgia. In reality, however, it is a calculated move to strengthen the BTK’s competitiveness at a moment when the region is openly discussing a potentially disruptive alternative: the reopening of transit routes through Armenia. The question that now arises is whether Armenian transit could become a genuine rival to the BTK, or whether the trilateral project will remain the undisputed backbone of the Middle Corridor.

Rashad Nabiyev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Digital Development and Transport, met with Asel Zhanasova, Advisor to the President of Kazakhstan, and Talgat Aldybergenov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of "Kazakhstan Railways" National Company, during their visit to Azerbaijan.

A salvage crew is expected to reach the site early next week where a cargo ship transporting roughly 3,000 vehicles to Mexico caught fire off the coast of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

Georgia has expressed its support for China's intention to join the joint venture Middle Corridor Multimodal Ltd, aimed at developing the Middle Corridor.

Two billion tons of cargo worth about 100 trillion rubles ($1.1 trillion), bringing to the Russian Federation's budget some 20 trillion rubles ($225 billion) in tax revenues, are planned to be shipped along the Northern Sea Route (NSR), Russia's Minister for Development of the Far East and Arctic Alexey Chekunkov said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).