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EBRD provides finance to Kazakhstan Temir Zholy

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe), July 23, 2024 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide a senior corporate loan...

Dredging of the Port of Kuryk will be completed this year

Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 22, 2024 – The Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ASCO) has said that dredging of the Port of Kuryk will be...

Kazakhstan’s Kuryk port handled over 1 mln tonnes of cargo in H1’24

Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 20, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s second largest Caspian Sea port of Kuryk handled 1.053 million tonnes of cargo in the first...

Port of Castellon saw a +93.5% rise in containers in H1 2024

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 17, 2024 – The Port of Castellon saw a +93.5% increase in container traffic in the first half of 2024, reaching...

China Railway and port of Baku discuss Middle Corridor

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) July 17, 2024 – The management of the Baku International Sea Trade Port (BISTP) and a delegation of Chinese railway...

Update: First cruise ship visiting all Caspian states in 2025

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) July 14, 2024 – After a multi-year delay, the first-ever cruise route visiting all Caspian Sea littoral states is expected...

TRNC wants to open Famagusta port for Turkic states

Famagusta, Cyprus (Ports Europe) July 12, 2024 – The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) wants to open the port of Famagusta (Gazimagusa) to ships...

Organization of Turkic States supports regaional trade corridors

Karabakh, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) July 10, 2024 – The Organization of Turkic States held a summit last weekend in Karabakh, Azerbaijan. The presidents...

China to invest in container hub in Port of Aktau. Kazakhstan

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 8, 2024 – China is set to invest in container hub in Port of Aktau, a Caspian Sea port. At recent discussions...

China started regular truck service to Europe via Middle Corridor

Kurik, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 6, 2024 – China has begun the regular lorries cargo service via the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route...

Beijing not interested in China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Ports Europe) July 1, 2024 – It looks like Beijing doesn’t see the 523 km long China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway as a...

Romanian, Kazak rail companies sign Middle Corridor MoU

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) June 28, 2024 – KTZ Express and Romania’s state-owned rail freight operator CFR Marfa have signed a Memorandum of...

Kazakhstan increases rail exports of fuel oil via Georgian ports

Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) June 25, 2024 – In January-May 2024, Kazakhstan increased rail exports of fuel oil through Georgian ports to 413,200 tons...

The delayed Rasht-Caspian Railway is operational

Rasht, Iran (Ports Europe) June 22, 2024 – The long-delayed Iran’s Rasht-Caspian Railway, connecting the city of Rasht to the country’s Caspian Sea port...

Chornomorsk-Batumi ferry service to restart despite war

Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 20, 2024 – In a bold move, Ukraine and Georgia decided to resume on July 9 the ferry service between their Black Sea...

Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan keep talking North-South corridor

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 20, 2024 – Russia is pressing ahead with the creation of a key sanctions-busting route linking it with Asia –...

KazMunayGas ships oil to Makhachkala

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – State energy company KazMunayGas (KMG) has reported that two of its tankers transported 406,977 tons of...

Kazakhstan’s Aktau port with record 5,100 TEUs in May

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau handled over 5,100 TEUs in May 2024, setting its own record for the...

Belarus multimodal Arctic terminal near Murmansk in 2028

Tuloma, Russia (Ports Europe) June 18, 2024 – The new multimodal terminal project for transshipment of Belarusian goods in Russia’s port of Lavna in Tuloma...

Joint Russia-Iran agency activities in Iran’s ports

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) June 15, 2024 – Iran’s state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) wants to organise joint agency...

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