Major seaport to be built in Baku
BAKU – President Ilham Aliyev attended the groundbreaking of an international seaport in Baku on Wednesday.
The project on building the new Baku maritime trade port, located in the Alat settlement, had been developed by Dutch Royal Haskoning company, which won a relevant tender, Transport Minister Ziya Mammadov said.
Construction of the seaport will be carried out in three stages in a designated area covering 400 hectares.
The shipping capacity of the facility is estimated at up to 10 million tons of cargo and 40,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers in the first stage, with the volumes to be further increased to 17m tons and 150,000 TEU containers and 25m tons and 1 million TEU containers respectively.
The first stage of construction operations will last three and a half years.
An international transport and logistics facility is planned in the seaport area as well.
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