Azerbaijan has made significant progress in financial transparency, said the report of the US Department of State. “Azerbaijan made significant progress during the review period by publishing more detail on planned expenditures, including allocations to state-owned enterprises”, said the 2016 Fiscal Transparency Report. Fiscal Transparency Report describes the minimum requirements of fiscal transparency developed, updated,…
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR continues to pump oil via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline as scheduled. “Pumping of August volumes of oil started this morning (August 1), and we haven’t received any information on its suspension so far”, the company said. “Maybe at some stage the transportation will stop for a while, but the pumping is…
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR doesn’t see progress in the project for construction of an underground gas storage facility in Georgia for the present, a source in SOCAR said. Currently, Georgia is waiting for completion of the project’s feasibility study by the French Geostock company, the contractor of the project. “The full and comprehensive feasibility…
Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR and French Total have activated work on the development project of the Absheron gas field in the Caspian Sea, a source on the oil and gas market of Azerbaijan said. “The parties are completely satisfied with the negotiations”, the source said. “The signing of a large number of contracts is…
The international ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has confirmed Azerbaijan’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings at Ba1 and assigned a negative outlook. Azerbaijan’s rating was changed in February, and the outlook on it was changed to “negative” in April. Earlier, the international ratings agency Fitch Ratings also approved of the long-term issuer default…
Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) announced the launch of a new campaign on flights from Baku to Berlin and vice versa. AZAL Miles frequent-flyer program participants, who will purchase air tickets for flights on the above-mentioned route from September 6 to October 29, 2016, will be able to earn twice as much status and travel points. Direct…
Azerbaijan Railways CJSC plans to start laying rail lines in mid-August within construction of a railway section from Azerbaijan’s Astara station to the border with Iran as part of the North-South transportation corridor, Nadir Azmammadov, spokesperson for Azerbaijan Railways, said. The North-South transportation corridor is meant to connect northern Europe with South-Eastern Asia. It will…