Azerbaijan: major bank creates investment company

Azerbaijan’s Bank BTB has created a BTB Kapital investment company. The authorized capital of the company is 350,000 manats. The official representative of the company is Rustam Jafarov. Presently, five investment companies with a total turnover of 4.3 billion manats operate in Azerbaijan. Bank BTB has been operating in Azerbaijan since 2010. (Trend/Business World Magazine)

Azerbaijan: Aliyev Airport passenger throughput up in Q1 2018

During the first three months of 2018 Heydar Aliyev International Airport served over 897,000 passengers. This indicator exceeds the same indicator of the previous year by 15%. National air carrier Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) carried 362,000 passengers, while the national low-cost airline Buta Airways – 104,000 passengers. 768,000 passengers (85.6% of passenger traffic) accounted for international…

Azerbaijan: hazelnut production to grow

Azerbaijan intends to significantly increase hazelnut production in 2018, according to the Azerbaijan Hazelnut Exporters Consortium. Its representative noted that the Consortium planned to increase production by almost 48%. “We plan to produce 60,000-65,000 tons of hazelnut in 2018, which is much more than last year. As for exports, this depends not only on increasing…