Every year it becomes more and more attractive for travelers. Development tourism infrastructure and transport opportunities for arriving in the city and transit passengers allow you to travel conveniently and on a budget, and special conditions are provided to those who prefer to use a personal car. Ferries from, for example, help you quickly and comfortably cross the Caspian Sea and end up in the ports of neighboring countries.

Convenient and profitable

Experienced tourists have long appreciated the advantages of ferries:

  • A convenient schedule allows you to travel rationally and even save money on hotels that you would have to stay in when traveling to your destination by land.
  • Ferries provide special amenities for passengers with disabilities.
  • The restaurants on the ferries provide hot meals on board. Usually this service is already included in the price of the ferry ticket.
  • When traveling to another country, passengers have the opportunity to make purchases in Duty Free stores and purchase the necessary goods at attractive prices.

Sea vessels participating in the organization of ferry crossings are built in accordance with international standards and have safety certificates for passengers and transported goods.

Where can you get to by ferry from Baku?

The capital of Azerbaijan is connected by ferry service with two countries:

  • WITH . A ferry from Baku will take passengers to the Caspian port of Turkmenbashi.
  • WITH . The final destination of the ferry leaving the Baku port of Alyat is the city.

New port in Baku is located east of the city center about 70 km.
The ferry from Baku to Aktau takes 18 to 24 hours, depending on the weather. The cost of a one-way ticket per person is about 4,500 for the most cheap option in a 4-berth cabin without a porthole. Children under 6 years old can travel free of charge. If a young passenger is over 6 years old, he is entitled to a 50% discount from the adult fare. After 12 years of age, all passengers are required to have a full ticket.
The ferry from Baku to Altau does not have an exact schedule and departs as requests are received. You can find out details about the departure time, book a seat and get all the necessary information on the website - www.bakuseaport.az.
Pricaspian seaside resort Avaza, 12 km from Turkmenbashi, becomes quite popular destination For beach holiday. The ferry from Baku to Turkmenbashi is a good way to cross the Caspian Sea and enter Turkmenistan. Vessels depart without a specific schedule - “according to filling”. Duration boat trip is about 12 hours.
Civilized intermediary services for organizing ferry crossings from Baku to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are provided by InterRailService LLC. Its official website with contacts for communication and booking tickets is www.railservice.ru.
All prices in the material are approximate and are given for July 2016.

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Water transport in Azerbaijan exists mainly for cargo purposes. Also popular in the Baku area walking routes on cruise ships and yachts.

Azerbaijan is located on the shores of the Caspian Sea, therefore transport routes lie along its banks. The main transport is ferries carrying passengers and cars to neighboring Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

Maritime transport in Azerbaijan

For maritime communication with other countries, there are ports in Azerbaijan:

  • Lenokran
  • Sumgayit
  • Astara

The main directions were ferry crossings between Baku and Aktau (Kazakhstan) and Baku and Turkmenbashi (Turkmenistan).

Ferry Baku-Aktau

There is a regular ferry service between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Ferries depart from Baku and arrive at the port of Aktau in southwestern Kazakhstan.

There are no regular departures; ships depart when they are full, so tickets must be purchased in advance. The waiting time is usually 2 - 3 days.

The average travel time is about 10-12 hours, but can increase to several days, depending on the weather conditions and passing customs control.

Phone: +(7 7292) 51 77 53 ext. +105

Fare: 70 - 110 $

Ferry Baku-Turkmenbashi

Ferries to Turkmenistan, like the ferry to Kazakhstan, do not have a departure schedule. Ships depart as they are full. Travel time is about 10 hours, but can be extended to several days.

There are two types of ships:

  • Railway passenger
  • Automobile and passenger

Ferries depart not from the city port itself, but from the village of Alyat, located 70 km from the city.

Phone: +(99 412) 493 20 58

Fare: $100 per passenger

Only dollars are accepted for payment.

Introduction to the topic - General information...

  • “A ferry is a vessel used to transport passengers and Vehicle between two banks of a water barrier (river, lake, strait and even the sea).
    Ferries are similar in function to bridges.” (Wikipedia).
  • “A ferry is a vessel designed to transport people and vehicles across water barriers - from cars to trains.
    Ferries are part of a ferry crossing, which, in addition to ferry vessels, includes shore facilities intended for the transfer of passengers and rolling stock from shore to ferry and back, and access roads - railway and road.
    Sea ferries are self-propelled vessels designed to transport vehicles, railway cars and passengers across inland seas and straits or between ports of different countries.
    Sea ferries are divided into passenger, car-passenger, railway and railway-car. Car-passenger ferries make up about 60% of the total passenger fleet.
    The speed of sea ferries and their passenger capacity depend on the type of ferry. Passengers are most often seated, although some ferries have sleeping cabins for overnight trips.
    The number of transported vehicles ranges from 55 to 700 or more.
    There are ramps for cars to enter and exit the ferries.
    The structural and architectural type of sea ferries is determined by the number of passengers and vehicles transported, the intensity of cargo traffic, and the length of the operating lines.
    Some sea ferries are made with symmetrical bow and stern and identical bow and stern propulsion and steering systems. Diesel or diesel-electric plants are used as ship power plants.
    For sea ferries, there is a trend of increasing speeds…”
    Encyclopedia “Technology”.

What happened (1962 - 1991): Baku-Krasnovodsk ferry crossing,
The first ferries on the Caspian Sea... For the first time, plans to build a trans-Caspian ferry were reported by the newspaper “Evening Moscow” in February 1929.
But we had to wait 33 years for this moment...

Only in 1962, according to the project of specialists from the Caspian Design, Survey and Scientific Research Institute of Maritime Transport, the largest in Europe at that time was put into operation ferry crossing Baku-Krasnovodsk is an integral part of the Baku and Krasnodar ports.
Since that time, the Baku port consisted of: an oil harbor, a container terminal, a cargo area of ​​the port, a railway ferry crossing and a marine terminal.

The Baku-Krasnovodsk line was the largest steamship-ferry crossing and became a significant event not only for the Caspian Shipping Company, but also for the system Navy the Soviet Union as a whole. The ferry crossing across the Caspian Sea between the ports of Baku and Krasnovodsk was equipped with modern technology. The full complex of coastal structures of this crossing was the most important hydraulic structure in the USSR.

“The first ferry crossing, 267 km long between the ports of Baku and Krasnovodsk, was put into operation in 1962 and reduced the mileage of trains in the unified transport communications system by 1,500-4,500 km.
It was served by five sea railway ferries of the “Soviet Azerbaijan” type, built by the Krasnoye Sormovo plant according to a project developed by the Vympel Design Bureau.”
The ferries have a three-shaft diesel-electric power plant, closed carriage deck, four-track arrangement railway tracks with loading (unloading) of rolling stock from the stern.

“Soviet Azerbaijan type, project 721:
A series of cargo-passenger ferries was built at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Gorky from 1962 to 1968 for the Caspian Sea Sea Shipping Company and consisted of 5 ships.
Structural type of the vessel: double-deck with a middle superstructure.
Register class P4/1C (railway ferry).
Number of decks, pcs.: 3
Number of impenetrable bulkheads, pcs. : 10, unsinkability is ensured when 2 compartments are flooded, incl. MO.
Length, m: 135
Width, m: 18.4
Side height, m: 6.2
Average draft, m: 4.06
Travel speed, knots: 16.0
Navigation area: Caspian Sea, cruising range, miles: 1000
Capacity of railway cars, pcs: 30 (4 axles)
Passenger capacity, persons: 289
Number of cabins: 2-berth 4 pcs.; 4-seater 22 pcs.
Seating: 193 pcs.
Crew, people: 63
Roll stabilizers: 4 tanks on the sides symmetrically
Main engine: 4 diesel engines DN20.7/25.4 type 13D-100 4x2500 hp (Kharkov)
Main generators: GP-306 from the Elektrosila plant, 4x1800 kW.

“The year 1960 was significant for the plant with the beginning of the serial construction of a new type of ships - sea railway cargo-passenger diesel-electric ferries for the Caspian Sea.
Sormovich Yuri Petrovich Pigin still warmly remembers their construction and completion in Baku. Painters, installers, quality control workers and other specialists came here on a business trip from Krasny Sormovo. There were many workers from the first ship assembly shop: E.I. went on a business trip together with Yuri Petrovich. Lokhov, B.P. Shaydakov, G.A. Prokhorov, V. Zabrodin, E. Negin. The Sormovichi people lived on a ship. Many people came with their families to see the completion of the second ferry.
Yuri Petrovich remembers how necessary these ferries were: many wagons with wheat had accumulated on the Azerbaijani coast, they had to be sent urgently, and the Caspian Shipping Company asked the Sormovichi people to allow them to transport cargo on unfinished ships.
These ferries also carried panels for houses destroyed in Tashkent in 1966 by an earthquake.
An Azerbaijani team worked on the ferries together with the Sormovichi team. We lived amicably with the Baku residents. And already on the second and third ferries, the Sormovichi people came as if they were visiting family.”

“The railway ferry “Soviet Azerbaijan”, a diesel-electric ship, was built to operate on the Baku – Krasnovodsk line. Project 721, was built at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Gorky.
Its deadweight is 2.4 thousand tons, capacity is 30 four-axle cars, passenger capacity is 290 people, speed is 16.5 knots.
The lead ship was laid down on June 28, 1960 and delivered on October 19, 1962.”

“These architecturally beautiful ferries began to arrive at the shipping company in 1962. The first was the ferry “Soviet Azerbaijan”. He was received by the famous captain, founder of the maritime dynasty, Panakhov.”

Traffic on the ferry crossing opened on November 22, 1962 with the diesel-electric ship “Soviet Azerbaijan”.

“On November 22, 1962, the ferry-type diesel-electric ship “Soviet Azerbaijan” set off on its first voyage to Baku. It carried 250 passengers and 300 railroad cars with cargo. Soon other ferries entered this route - “Soviet Turkmenistan”, “Hamid Sultanov”, “Soviet Uzbekistan”, “Soviet Kazakhstan”.
For the residents of Krasnovodsk, this was simply an outstanding achievement in navigation. Residents of the city every Saturday and Sunday went to the other side of Baku for the bazaar and shopping. A ticket cost 3 rubles for the deck, 5 rubles for the cabin, and 10–15 rubles for the class cabin.
Travel time is 12 hours. In the evening I sat down, and in the morning I was already there, in Baku. You wander around the city all day and return home in the evening. Very convenient and profitable.”

“…”Soviet Azerbaijan” is the very first ferry on the Caspian Sea.
In 2nd grade. the cabins were really small, but still 1.5 rubles. more than a train compartment, because There is also a wardrobe and a washbasin. In the 3rd grade. - at 2 rubles. more: there is also a sofa.
But it was still very pleasant to walk on it - peace and quiet, and only 12 hours.”

“The ferry “Soviet Azerbaijan” was already standing at the pier in Baku, moored stern to it. The hold lid was open. It rose - opening and falling - tightly closing the hold, on two powerful hydraulic cylinders. Through the open entrance hole - the latzport, in the thick darkness of the southern night, the yellow square of the ferry's hold shone brightly, in which one could see the gleaming steel lines of the railway tracks and the glowing red and blue lights of switches and dead ends.
The ferry was waiting for its main cargo - railway cars. Each such ferry could take on board twenty-eight railway cars or tanks - an average freight train, and another two hundred passengers. The remaining space in the hold and on upper deck then filled with cars and trucks. Cars at the top. Trucks below. The car was lifted to the upper deck by a freight elevator.
There, on the upper deck in the superstructures, there are cabins for passengers with seats and sleeping places. If the weather is favorable in spring and summer, passengers are still transported on deck - deck seats.
If there were few trucks, then cars were also placed in the hold. But being in cars was strictly prohibited.
The ferry, Sashka, is like a bridge between the two banks of a water obstacle. You can't build a bridge across the sea.
Ferries, Sanya, are different: railway, automobile and passenger.
This is in front of you now standing the railway - automobile - passenger ferry “Soviet Azerbaijan”, which runs along the route the port of Baku (Azerbaijan) - the port of Krasnovodsk (Turkmenistan).
On this ferry, the crew (rank and file) live under the carriage deck.
I don’t know exactly how many cars he takes. And it’s hard to say for sure, because cars are also different. They say that approximately eighty passenger cars of the GAZ-24 class still take such a ferry on board. Here is our MAZ with a load (green Super MAZ, with a catchy white inscription “Sovtransavto” on the lining of the cabin) how many Zhiguli is this, by weight? What about the space it occupies?
That’s why they do it this way, Sasha: first they load the wagons, and then fill the empty space with cars. Entry to the cargo deck of railway ferries, Sasha, is only from the stern. Car ferries have entry from the stern, sides and bow.
There are ferries that have through passage. They enter through the port at the stern and exit through the bow ramp. The bow of the vessel is tilted back and the ramp is lowered before transport enters or unloads.
From here to Turkmenistan is three hundred and six kilometers. Twelve hours of travel and a ferry at the roadstead of Muravyov Bay, in the Krasnovodsk Bay. The ferry enters the Krasnovodsk Bay, where the city itself and the port, consisting of two berths, are located in the quiet, cozy Muravyov Bay.
Twelve hours is just a move. And also mooring. It all depends on the weather; all the stabilizers and thrusters help only up to a certain point. Once we hung out on the roadstead for two days.
The captain did not want to take risks, and the port did not allow entry. Basically, everything goes fine, if there is a strong storm, the ship does not go out to sea at all, but this also happens. It seems that when we left, everything was fine and the weather reports did not foretell anything special. The Caspian Sea is restless.
Do you see, Sashka, there in the sea ahead, in front of the ferry, two buoys are glowing? These are the guide gates of the crossing - two huge concrete doors. So to make it clearer to you, they work on the principle of a Eurofork catcher. The ferry turns around and slowly enters the gate with its stern, like the tongue of a trailer into the forklift catcher. If the captain does not hit the approach channel exactly, the concrete flaps guide him, and click... the finger goes exactly into the hole of the drawbar. And here the ferry becomes exactly joint to joint - rail to rail. The railway track in the ferry's hold is opposite the track on the pier. They are connected by a loading bridge.
I must give credit to the crews of the ferry - no matter how much I crossed, they entered the canal clearly - without even touching the guides, without scraping the side against the concrete wall. On such ferries, Sasha, there is a thruster and anti-roll bars, which allow for good maneuverability and very high, I would say, jewel-like precision when mooring the vessel, and two control posts (in the bow and stern) allow the ferry captain to control it equally successfully both when reversing and when driving forward.
Only the captain moors the ferry - this is the custom in the navy. The captain is on the bridge of any ship and commands the crew during mooring and departure. By how the mooring is performed, the experience and skill of the entire ship’s crew and, of course, its captain are judged.
Can you imagine such a colossus coming in? What is the force of inertia, can you imagine? Can you imagine how precise the calculation must be to stop it exactly at the quay wall. There is no way to do this without skill, and the ship can be seriously damaged and the entire pier can be torn to hell...
When this ferry was launched, Sasha, railway and road trains received direct access from Central Asia to Transcaucasia and further to Europe. The ferry saves time, on average, a week, before those who take a detour.
For Krasnovodsk it was easy historical event, which greatly changed the lives of its population for the better. Residents of the city and surrounding villages every Saturday and Sunday went to the other side of Baku to the bazaar to sell their goods and go shopping themselves. A ticket costs three rubles for the deck, five rubles for a cabin with seats, and ten to fifteen rubles for a class cabin. Travel time is only twelve hours. In the evening I sat down, and in the morning I was already there, in Baku. You have the whole day to walk around the city, visit shops, and in the evening you return home. Very convenient and profitable.
And it brought a lot of benefits for the residents of Baku too. Baku residents also go to Krasnovodsk. They buy amazing Turkmen melons and various cool foreign things and products there. Supplies to Turkmenistan are normal, but due to their habits, national characteristics and traditions, Turkmens do not consume many products, and do not wear many things. Especially women. It’s Azerbaijani peddlers who are helping Turkmen stores fulfill their plan. In short, life is in full swing. Have you seen how much Turkmen cars and trucks cost? They are returning from the market. And the return will be the same.
Baku, Krasnovodsk... This ferry crossing for the whole country, Sanya, has brought invaluable benefits!
Cars are placed on the cargo deck of the ferry. The wheels of the cars are secured with metal chocks, and the edges of the cars are raised with screw jacks to completely eliminate their lateral rocking.
Then each car is secured with more chains and turnbuckles (a device for tightening and removing slack in rigging, cables, etc.) and, all right, you can set sail.
They put rubber wheel chocks under our wheels. If the car is well loaded, then the semi-trailer is also secured with jacks. If it is empty or there is little load, then jacks are not installed. On some ferries, Sasha, they require that the semi-trailer frame have eyelets. These are metal brackets for attaching chains with lanyards to the bottom for reliable fastening.
When we got off the ferry, I stopped on a metal bridge that was thrown from the deck of the ferry to the pier, jumped on it, as if checking its reliability, and asked Sashka - do you see this bridge?
There are two such bridges - one to get onto the ferry, and the second to get off it.
When it’s your turn to board the ferry, you drive up to that white stop line in front of the bridge. All your documents are checked. Together with the watchman, the police also carry out control. The car is first measured in length with a tape measure; if in doubt, the width and height can be measured. Length for payment, other parameters are checked for compliance with existing road standards. Then they inspect the entire road train: check fuel tanks. They either must be full or they must be empty.
There should be no leaks of fuel, oil or coolant. If the cargo compartment is not sealed, the cargo is checked to ensure there is nothing there that falls under the dangerous category.
You will have a barrel of fuel or oil in your back and you will no longer be able to get on a regular ferry.
You will wait on a special ferry, which transports only dangerous goods and no cars or passengers. Then they ask to turn off the engine. Then they ask to start it. If the engine does not start, you cannot load onto the ferry. If everything is fine, you reverse into the hold. The signalman commands the loading.”

But the transition from one port to another did not always go smoothly... “The sea railway ferry “Soviet Azerbaijan” of the Caspian Shipping Company with a gross tonnage of 8839 gross tons departed from Krasnovodsk for Baku on January 4, 1979 at 18:06.
The ship carried 290 passengers, a train and three cars. The draft at the bow was 3.9 m, at the stern -4.0 m.
At 19:25, the ship, having passed the Krasnovodsk Canal, went out to sea. The southwest wind was blowing with force 5, the waves did not exceed 3-4. After 22:00 the wind switched to the north-west, began to intensify and by midnight reached hurricane force, raising waves 5-6 m high. The ship experienced strong mixed rolling. To reduce it, on January 5 at 01:00 we set a heading of 295°. Subsequently, depending on the behavior of the vessel, the course changed many times, although these changes were not recorded, reckoning was not carried out, during the entire 10-hour passage the ship’s position was determined only 3 times, although the possibility of determination by coastal lighthouses and stationary drilling platforms was available almost throughout the entire passage .
At 04:25, the captain instructed the second mate (the senior mate was late for his watch) to determine a place and lie down on the Shakhovaya Spit buoy, from where the ship was to proceed to Baku Bay in the usual way. After that, he went down to his cabin. At 04:26 a.m. the location was determined by two lighthouses. The ship at this time was following a course of 310°, being 4-5 miles from the Shakhovaya Spit buoy, which had not yet been discovered. At 04:43, having not found the buoy, we set course 255°.
At 05:03 the senior mate climbed onto the bridge. But he no longer had enough time to understand the situation and do anything.
At 05:06 a.m., the ferry “Soviet Azerbaijan” jumped out onto Shakhova Spit at full speed.
The investigation established that the watch was carried out carelessly by the second officer, plotting and reckoning were not carried out at all, the moments of changes in courses and the courses themselves were not recorded anywhere, the observation was unsatisfactory - both the watch assistant and the lookout were in the wheelhouse for almost the entire watch, without finding the buoy Shah's braid. Having lost the idea of ​​the vessel's location, the officer of the watch not only did not call the captain to the bridge, but also did not take any measures to ensure the safety of the vessel - he did not try to clarify the location, did not reduce the speed. Instead, instructing the sailor on watch to look for the buoy, he went to the chart room to fill out the log.
It is impossible to remove direct responsibility for the accident from the captain. After all, he entrusted control of the ship to the second officer of the watch at the most crucial moment of approaching the shore after many hours of virtually uncontrolled maneuvering.”