SALT LAKE -- Add Azerbaijan to the countries where you will be able to find a Martin Door.

Dr. Keith Martin, director of International Sales, said a new distributor is being set up for the Muslim country located on the Caspian Sea. VUSAT, owned by Dr. Teyyub Shukurov, ordered its first shipment of garage doors earlier this year.

Shukurov made contact with Dr. Martin several years ago and expressed interest in being a Martin Door distributor.

Because of its geography, shipping doors to Azerbaijan presents some special problems. A former Soviet state, the country borders Iran on the south, Armenia on the west and Georgia and Russia on the north. It is not accessible via an ocean port. In order to ship doors to the country, Martin Door has to send containers to Georgia and then truck the doors through that country and into Baku, the capital. Political tension in Georgia had temporarily closed those ports, adding to the difficulty of making the shipment.

Azerbaijan is the 69th country to sell Martin Doors, according to Dr. Martin