BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 26. Freight turnover on the Azerbaijan section of the North-West Transport Corridor reached 1.61 billion ton-kilometers from January through June 2025.
Data obtained by Trend from the State Statistical Committee indicates that this reflects a drop of 201.6 million ton-kilometers, or 11.1 percent, compared to the same period last year (1.81 billion ton-kilometers).
As many as 1.411 billion ton-kilometers of the total were transit cargoes, reflecting a decline of 408.3 million ton-kilometers, or 22.4 percent, from the previous year.
A "North-West Corridor" can refer to several different things depending on the context, most notably the Azerbaijani Transport Corridor, a route for goods via the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway linking Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Türkiye; the Northwest Passenger Corridor in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S., a high-speed rail service initiative; or an airspace restricted area in the UK for general aviation between Liverpool and Manchester.
