Oct. 13
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars to be finally commissioned before November 2016
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway route will be finally commissioned in November 2016, Javid Gurbanov, head of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, said at the international conference titled 'Prospects of Development of Transit Potential of Azerbaijan'.
"Construction work on the BTK will be fully completed in 2016," he said. "We plan to start cargo transportation by late 2015, and it is planned to complete work on the electrification of railway and the creation of other railway infrastructure during the next year."
Oct. 15
Azerbaijani president pays working visit to Kazakhstan
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev arrived in Kazakhstan for a working visit to attend a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State. The president was welcomed by high-ranking state and governmental officials.
Azerbaijan, ADB to continue co-op in implementation of road projects
Azerbaijan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) intend to continue cooperation in the implementation of road projects. The process of implementation and the current status of the projects financed by the ADB were discussed during the meeting between Azerbaijan's Deputy Transport Minister Musa Panahov and Director of ADB Transport and Communications Division Xiaohong Yang. The sides also discussed the issues related to the future cooperation between Azerbaijan and ADB in the transport sector, financing the priority projects in the sphere of road infrastructure.
WB discloses problems of Azerbaijani agricultural sector
One of the main current problems of agriculture in Azerbaijan is for the farmers to enter the market, Rufiz Chiragzade, the WB chief specialist for agribusiness, said.
Chiragzade made this statement as part of the first Azerbaijan International Conference "Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility" (Baku CSR Conference-2015).
He said that the main reasons are the weak development of the production chain, undeveloped ties between the producers and those who recycle the products.
"In particular, the negative point is the lack of contractual arrangements between producers and processors," he said.