Scam? I don't think so.
The passenger ticket pays for passage of self, then there is the cost of transporting the bike. I've sent a bike from Australia to Timor Leste previously and had to pay port charges at both ends in addition to the cost of shipping the bike. Then I sent the bike from Medan in Indonesia to Georgetown in Malaysia and guess what, port charges at each end. The port where the ferry docks in Baku is a new purpose built facility with modern offices and very efficient loading and unloading, to expect free use of these is unrealistic.
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