Over 99.9 million barrels of oil were transported from Turkey’s Ceyhan terminal of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in the first half of 2021, Azertag reported.

Italy was Azerbaijan's largest trade partner in the first half of 2021 with the trade turnover between the two countries amounting to $3.3 billion, the State Customs Committee has reported.

After the completion of the construction of the purple line of the Baku Metro, trains will run without drivers, Bakhtiyar Mammadov, Spokesman for the Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, told Trend.

The price of Azeri LT CIF Augusta, produced at the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) field, decreased by 1 cent on July 20 compared to the previous price, settling at $69.32 per barrel, Trend reports referring to the source from the country's oil and gas market.

According to the World Organization for Animal Health, cowpox (viral skin infection) has been detected in Russia’s Kostroma region, Trend reports with reference to the Azerbaijani Food Safety Agency.

The Baku International Sea Trade Port (Port Of Baku) is developing Azerbaijan’s transit potential through digitalization and expansion of the international cooperation, Head of the Strategic Planning and Development Department of the Baku International Sea Trade Port Khudayar Hasanli said in an interview with Trend.

The EU-funded and implemented by UN`s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) "Strengthening Agricultural Advisory Services" project organized a discussion for local farmers on the main diseases and pests of sunflower, their control and priority areas of agrarian advisory services in Sarkar village of Samukh region, Trend reports citing the EU Delegation in Azerbaijan.

A cyberattack modeling laboratory has been set up under the Data Processing Center of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan, a source in the ministry told Trend.

Azerbaijan has supported the decision to increase daily crude oil output by 400,000 barrels per month in August-December 2021, and to extend the Declaration of Cooperation until the end of 2022, with partial adjustments to the base level of oil production from May next year, at the 19th Ministerial Meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC countries.

MasterCard plans to bring the non-cash turnover of all payments in Azerbaijan up to 40 percent within 2021, MasterCard representative in Azerbaijan Erdem Cakar told Trend.

The North-South International Transport Corridor will have a particular impact on the volume of international freight traffic, Natig Jafarov, Director of a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, ADY Container LLC, told Trend

Some 10,456 passenger cars worth $69.91 million were exported from Georgia to Azerbaijan from January through April of this year, Trend reports citing the National Statistics Office of Georgia.

Development of tourism is one of the most important areas of economic cooperation in the Caspian Sea, Ilgar Valizade, head of the South Caucasus political scientists club, told Trend on July 16.

A record number of container trains - 48 units - have been shipped to Azerbaijan within the TURKUAZ project, which implements rail freight from Turkey to Azerbaijan and vice versa passing through Georgia via the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, ADY Container reported on July 16.

Azerbaijan’s foreign trade surplus amounted to $3.4 billion during the period of January-June 2021, the State Customs Committee has reported.

Azerbaijan increased the volume of production in the non-oil and gas sector by 16.6 percent in January-June 2021, the State Statistics Committee has reported.

Some 1,009 new jobs are supposed to be created in Azerbaijan due to soft loans issued from January through June 2021, the country’s Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov said on Twitter, Trend reports on July 16.

Azerbaijan’s Insurers Association and All Russia Insurance Association have signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of insurance, during the visit of ARIA’s President Igor Yurgens to Baku.

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) held a new foreign exchange auction with the participation of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) on July 15, 2021, Trend reports referring to a source in the CBA.

Azerbaijan’s State Oil Company SOCAR and Technip Energies have signed a cooperation agreement on offshore sustainable energy development.

The volume of investments in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas sector decreased by 2.8 percent in January-June 2021, the State Statistics Committee has reported.

Azerbaijan and Serbia have discussed prospects of cooperation between the customs bodies as well as economic-commercial relations.

Azerbaijan increased electricity production by 254.2 million kWh, bringing the volume to 13.2 billion kWh during the period of January-June 2021, the Energy Ministry has reported.

Some 32.3 million manat ($19 million) from the privatization of state property was transferred to the Azerbaijani state budget during the first six months of 2021, Trend reports referring to the statement of State Service on Property Issues under the Azerbaijani Ministry of Economy in Twitter.

The volume of Azerbaijan’s foreign trade turnover amounted to $11.9 billion in the first five months of 2021, the State Statistics Committee has reported.