The transit partnership between Georgia and Azerbaijan, carrying Caspian oil and gas and the Middle Corridor trade route westward. It has produced Georgian transit income and Azerbaijani market access since 2006 and has survived every political shift in either country without becoming contested.
Un arrangement symétrique : il se lit de la même façon des deux côtés. Rédigé une seule fois, sur une seule fiche.
L’arrangement
- Statut
- ActiveEn vigueur et opérationnelle. Ne dit rien de la manière dont elle fonctionne, ni de la direction qu’elle prend.
- Ce qu’il couvre
- ÉnergieCommerceInfrastructuresDiplomatiqueCatégories que l’arrangement est documenté comme incluant. Ce n’est pas une mesure : une relation qui en couvre davantage est décrite plus en détail, non tenue plus fermement.
Synthèse
Every westbound energy route out of the Caspian crosses Georgia. The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline, opened in July 2006, was the first major export route from the former Soviet Caspian to bypass both Russia and Iran, and the parallel South Caucasus gas pipeline followed within a year; the Middle Corridor trade route runs the same way. The arrangement created the region's modern economic geometry — Azerbaijani revenue, Georgian transit income, Turkish leverage, Western stake and Armenian exclusion — and it is the one major regional relationship that no party has sought to reopen. Georgia's relations with Azerbaijan are correct and its transit role uncontested, through an EU accession crisis, a Karabakh war and a change in every other alignment around it.
Pourquoi c’est important
It is the structural reason Georgia matters to states with no view on its politics, and the reason Armenia's exclusion from the region's economic geometry has persisted for thirty years. It is also the counter-example to a reading of the Caucasus as uniformly contested: the region's most valuable physical asset sits on a relationship nobody disputes.
Événements associés
- Inauguration de l’oléoduc Bakou–Tbilissi–Ceyhan 13 juil. 2006
Energy · Economic
Systèmes dont elle dépend
Fiches logistiques canoniques. Elles portent les corridors, les nœuds, la dépendance et l’historique des perturbations sur lesquels repose cette relation, et qu’elle ne reformule pas.
Lieux
Repères que ce module publie déjà. Cette fiche n’ajoute aucune précision géographique qui lui soit propre.
Ce qui reste inconnu
- Transit fees, volumes and their share of Georgian public revenue are not published by this module.
- `validFrom` is anchored to the opening of the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline in July 2006. Cooperation on the route predates the opening and this module does not date its start.
- Whether a sustained deterioration in Georgia's external position would affect the arrangement is untested; nothing in the record suggests either party has raised it.
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Évalué au — 2026-06 Dernière revue — 2026-09-01