BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 15. The volume of freight transported by maritime transport in Azerbaijan increased by a margin from January through April 2025, reaching 2.94 million tons.
Data obtained by Trend from the State Statistical Committee indicates that this marks a 12.7 percent increase in freight volume, with oil cargo making up 48.5 percent of the total shipments.
Furthermore, Azerbaijan's maritime terminals executed 4.54
million tons of throughput activities throughout the reporting
timeframe, with transshipment freight constituting 83.6 percent of
that aggregate volume. As of May 1, the aggregate tonnage of cargo
still in situ at the ports was quantified at 193,100 tons.
Notwithstanding the uptick in freight volumes, the metrics for
passenger throughput via maritime modalities experienced a
contraction of 8.1 percent relative to the corresponding timeframe
of 2024, culminating in a total of 7,900 individuals conveyed by
marine transport.
To note, cargo and passenger transportation grew from January through April 2025 by 3.0 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively, compared to the same period last year. Economic entities in the transport sector moved a total of 76.1 million tons of cargo.
Of this volume, 3.9 percent was transported by sea, 7.5 percent by rail, 0.2 percent by air, 59.2 percent by road, and 29.2 percent via pipelines. The volume of cargo transported by vehicles in the non-state sector increased by 4.4 percent, with this sector accounting for 78.4 percent of the total cargo transported.
Meanwhile, transport operators provided services to 659.6 million passengers in the January-April period. Road transport carried 88.3 percent of these passengers, the metro accounted for 11.1 percent, and the remainder traveled by other modes of transport.
