Azerbaijan has proposed to link the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas to Helsinki, Finland, by railway. Taleh Ziyadov, the Director-General of the Baku International Sea Trade Port addressing the CIS Global Business Forum in Dubai said that Azerbaijan, which borders Iran to the south, sees itself connecting Iran with Europe through its northern border with Russia.
Speaking on logistics development as a mean to economic transformation, he stressed that the future is all about inter-modal transportation.
„Azerbaijan has set up robust logistics infrastructure by building competitive routes to effectively handle time-sensitive and high-value goods which have contributed to business growth across the region,” Ziyadov added.
Azerbaijan, being part of the North-South transport corridor, is ready to connect the northern countries to the southern and western countries with the eastern. In this regard, the North-South and the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railways are expected to serve as bridges from north to south and from east to west and vice versa.
The North-South corridor, from India to Helsinki, is one of the most important routes for the region. It is a multimodal route for transportation of passengers and cargo from Russia’s St. Petersburg to the Mumbai port.
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