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On February 6, two block trains from Turkey and China were discharged in the Port of Baku

(February 6 2021, Baku) – The third export train arrived at the Port of Baku on February 6. The block train consists of 42 containers, each 40 feet long. They were transporting medical and chemical products. The containers were loaded on to the Beket Ata feeder ship at the Port of Baku within the range of 6 hours and was sent to the Port of Aktau.

It should be noted that the Beket Ata ship arrived at the Port of Baku from Aktau today and brought 36 containers of industrial equipment (compressors), each 40 feet long from China.

The containers from Turkey were transported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway and were to be transshipped over the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan and from there it will be sent to the Chinese city of Xi’an. The operators of the third block train are the members of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Consortium – ADY Container (Azerbaijan), KTZ Express (Kazakhstan), GR Logistics (Georgia) and the Pacific Eurasia Logistics (Turkey) companies.

We would like to inform that the first container train carrying cargo from Turkey to China arrived at the Port of Baku on December 10, and the second train on December 26, 2020. In 2020, a total of 12,672 TEU containers were transported by feeders on the Caspian Sea via the Trans-Caspian International Trade Route.