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Marseille port looks to boost business with India

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) October 17, 2024 – The French President’s Special Envoy for the IMEC, Gérard Mestrallet, has met with the...

70% cargo increase along the Middle Corridor in Jan-Sep’24

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) October 11, 2024 – Cargo transportation along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, Middle...

Russia and Azerbaijan create committee on Caspian shallowing

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) October 6, 2024 – “Want to kill an idea? Form a committee”. Caspian Sea shallowing has led to reduced load of ships and...

Port of Baku joins Climate Action Week

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) October 1, 2024 – The Port of Baku has joined the Baku Climate Action Week (BCAW), being held between September...

Key role for Trans-Caspian segment of TITR

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 26, 2024 – In parallel with the development of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, Middle...

Kazakhstan’s ports handled 4.5 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-Aug’24

Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 26, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports of Aktau and Kuryk handled 4.5 million tonnes of cargo in the...

Finally, a JV is created for the container hub in Aktau port

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 22, 2024 – KTZ Express, Port Lianyungang and Aktau Sea Trade Port finally announced the creation of a joint...

Germany’s Rhenus Group signs agreement with Port of Aktau

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – The Rhenus Group has signed a declaration of intent with Aktau Sea Commercial Port JSC to develop...

Rhenus to set up joint venture with Uzbek Railways

Samarkand, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – As part of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s trip to Central Asia, delegation member Tobias...

Georgia, China sign Middle Corridor MoU

Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Last Friday, Georgia and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop the...

200th container train from China arrives in Aktau port

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 16, 2024 – The 200th container train so far in 2024 from China has arrived at Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port...

Kazakh ports handled 1.9 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Aug’24 – really?

Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 16, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports handled 1.9 million tonnes of cargo in the first eight months of the...

First China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan freight train

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 12, 2024 – The first China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan freight train departed from Wuxi, Jiangsu province near...

Update: China to help (again) Russia’s North-South corridor

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) September 12, 2024 – Russia is again relying on help from China to develop a strategic transportation project – the...

Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan to invest $150 mln in transport

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 4, 2024 – Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan are developing measures worth some $150 million to expand cooperation...

New JV to manage Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line in Georgia

Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 27, 2024 – Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) and Georgia’s Marabda-Kartsakhi Railway announced on August 23 the creation...

ONE announces a new Black Sea service

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 25, 2024 – Ocean Network Express (ONE) announced a new Black Sea Turkey 2 (BT2) service which will offer extended...

Vessel traffic systems in Kazakh Caspian ports in 2025

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 19, 2024 – Commissioning of the vessel traffic services system (VTS) in Kazakhstan’s main Caspian Sea port of...

Container transit from China via Middle Corridor increased 14 times

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 19, 2024 – Container transit from China via the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, Middle...

Shrinking Caspian is a bonanza for Jan De Nul

Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 16, 2024 – After winning the tender for the maritime infrastructure of Anaklia, Georgia’s first deep sea port on...

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