Heads of Caspian countries' ports meet in Baku
By Nazrin Gadimova
Heads of the ports of the Caspian littoral states are holding multilateral meeting in Baku on November 7-8.
The event is organized by Azerbaijan's State Maritime Administration and Baku International Sea Trade Port.
Representatives of Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan take part in the meeting.
Speaking at the event, Azerbaijan's Deputy Transport Minister Musa Panahov said that relations between the littoral states were friendly, and expressed confidence that holding such meetings would give a new impetus to the development of relations between the five countries in the field of maritime transport.
According to Panahov, Azerbaijan's navy was developing in the background of general economic developments in the country.
Azerbaijan invested 12 billion manats in the development of transport infrastructure in the last 5 years.
During the visit, the Caspian Sea ports' delegations visited the National Centre for Recognition and Tracking in the Far Distance.
The main purpose of the event was discussing the improvement of the efficiency of the Caspian Sea ports and collaboration on increasing freight traffic in the transport corridors.
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