10.08.2007
International port of Baku may be transferred to Alat settlement.

Ministry of Transportation of Azerbaijan Republic discuss the redeployment of International port of Baku to countryside with Korean company GS Engineering&Consruction. Korean specialists are going to stay in Baku until August 16 and within the bounds of visit discuss this project with Azerbaijan Government and the number of Government structures.
It is talked of bridge that will connect Shikhov with Zikh highway. Bridge of many kilometres should be constructed across the Baku bay. It will allow to unload the Capital roads from cargo and other kinds of transportation following from South direction to the airport and back. We want to note that the idea of construction of such bridge exists from the middle 1980s. The transferring of the sea port from Baku to Alat will considerably reduce the intensity of navigation in Baku bay and will improve its ecological state. The construction of another bypass road from Garadagh circle until Khirdalan circle will allow the cargo transportation to make a detour round the capital from North to South and back. So, there will be created new transport ring that will reduce the tension on the roads.