APA, the Baku news agency, announced the shipment on Wednesday afternoon: 989 tonnes of diesel in 17 wagons, dispatched on Thursday from Bilajari “in the direction of Boyuk Kasik”, the last Azerbaijani station on the line to Georgia. Nearly 15,000 tonnes of diesel and around 5,000 tonnes of AI-92 and AI-95 petrol have been exported to Armenia “so far”, it wrote, attaching no institution to the totals.
The series has a June reading. Haqqin.az, citing customs statistics on 30 July, put the total at about 12,000 tonnes of diesel, 1,000 of AI-92 and 3,000 of AI-95, and dated the first deliveries to August 2025, the month the peace agreement was initialed in Washington. No Armenian figure has surfaced in the desk's reads. Two Baku outlets, one customs basis and no Armenian figure yet: that is the state of the ledger.
There is no working rail crossing between Azerbaijan and Armenia. At Boyuk Kasik the wagons pass to Georgian Railway, run north-west to Tbilisi and turn south to the Armenian border, the only way a train can make the trip.
Every tonne Baku sells Yerevan takes that detour, because the direct line through Nakhchivan and Zangezur exists as a document. TRIPP, the route that carries the US president's name, goes before Armenia's Constitutional Court on 15 September.
APA carried a second ledger. More than 55,000 tonnes of grain, nearly 9,000 tonnes of fertiliser, 1,414 tonnes of propane, 133 tonnes of aluminium, 1,114 tonnes of coal and 334 tonnes of timber have moved from Russia to Armenia in transit through Azerbaijan, by the agency's count. Yerevan's readout of Pashinyan's meeting with Aliyev in Bishkek on 31 August listed the same two lines, petroleum products and grain transit, among the dividends of the settlement.
Two Baku outlets, one customs basis and no Armenian figure yet: that is the state of the ledger.
Aliyev told the SCO Plus session in Bishkek on Tuesday that the South Caucasus was turning from a zone of protracted conflicts into a zone of peace, that Azerbaijan was supplying petroleum products to Armenia, and that transit corridors for third-country cargo were working, in AZERTAC's account of the speech as relayed by Ritm Eurasia.
How much is about 20,000 tonnes? Armenia's customs service put 2025 imports of petroleum products from Russia at $189 million, about 37% of the total, in figures Hetq published in July; that puts the whole 2025 fuel import bill near $510 million. At Tuesday's Russian exchange prices, $825 a tonne for summer diesel and $874 for AI-92, Baku's cumulative deliveries are worth about $17 million, a little over 3% of a year's imports, spread over 13 months. Haqqin's claim that the Azerbaijani supply lowered Armenian prices by “approximately 20%” is the Baku outlet's; no Armenian price series has been opened against it.
The direction is what the ledger records. A country that bought 37% of its fuel from Russia and the rest from Egypt, Romania, Bulgaria and a tail of smaller suppliers now takes a growing share by rail from the neighbour it fought for 30 years, and its Russian grain arrives through the same neighbour's yards. Baku holds the switch on both. That position is worth more than any clause in the settlement text, and it was built one 17-wagon train at a time.