Free trade zone in Azerbaijan to attract its first residents from 2017

Baku, Azerbaijan, May 24 Trend: Registration of residents of the free trade zone in the territory of Azerbaijan's Baku International Sea Trade Port will begin from January 2017, Taleh Ziyadov, director general of the port, told reporters May 24. Ziyadov said that currently, the preparation of a legal basis for the free trade zone's operation is being conducted. "I think that its preparation will be fully completed until September 2016," he said. "We will start to register residents from January 2017."