Analysis – Central Asia to help China bypass Russia en route to Europe
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) December 3 – It is China, again, that is emerging as an unlikely winner from the agreed direct link between Turkey and…
Eurasia; New export gateway from Iranian ports
Director General of Amirabad Ports and Maritime office: Exports to Eurasian countries is the new gateway to neutralize sanctions on Iran's economy - November 23,…
New berths for general cargo, grain and oil in Iran’s Anzali port
Anzali, Iran (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – Several new projects have been inaugurated in the Iran’s Caspian Sea port of Anzali, 370 km north of…
Azerbaijan and Turkey gain a direct road link from the Nagorno-Karabakh war
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 - Lost in the small print of the ceasefire deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia, that ended six weeks of…
Kazakh ships to gain faster access to Russian rivers for shipment of goods from and to Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) November 9, 2020 – Kazakhstani companies will gain faster and easier access to inland waterways (navigable rivers) in Russia and will be…
Private investment in Iran’s Astara port reach €1.7 million
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) October 19, 2020 - Kianoush Amiri, head of Astara Ports and Maritime Organization, has reported that Iran’s private sector invested 500 billion…
Analysis – Russia to develop modern container terminals in the Caspian Sea and Volga river
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) September 29, 2020 – There are no modern Russian container terminals on the Caspian Sea and the Volga river and it looks…
Azerbaijan and Iran discuss port cooperation
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) September 20, 2020 - Baku International Sea Trade Port, the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran and the State Maritime Agency under…
Iran’s Anzali port sees 58% growth in traffic in Jan-Apr 2020
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) August 14, 2020 - In the first four months of 2020, cargo traffic increased by 58% to 556,000 tons. Exports were up…
Iran and Russia to start joint Caspian Sea shipping line
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) August 13, 2020 - Moscow and Tehran have agreed to launch a new Caspian Sea shipping service between Russia’s port of Astrakhan…
Analysis – Port of Tripoli must replace destroyed Beirut as entry gate to Lebanon
Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 8, 2020 – The second busiest Lebanese port of Tripoli is to take over the functions of Beirut port, obliterated by…
Analysis – The aftermath of the Beirut port obliteration
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 7, 2020 - The port of Beirut, Lebanon’s busiest port, is not going to recover for many months after what is…
Iran proposes Hamidiyeh port as Syrian free trade zone
Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) July 23, 2020 - Economic Deputy of the secretariat of the Supreme Council of Iran's Free Trade, Industrial and Special Economic Zones…
Amirabad Port has 52% of traffic among the northern ports of Iran
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) July 3, 2020 - In the first quarter of 2020, 844,869 tons of goods handled in Amirabad port, a 52% share of…
Azerbaijan and Iran to set up a joint logistics centre in Iran’s Ardabil province
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) June 10, 2020 - Azerbaijan and Iran are planning to set up a joint logistics centre together with an industrial area in…
Cargo traffic through North-South Transport Corridor to be boosted
May 19, 2020 Governor of Russia’s Astrakhan Region Igor Babushkin tasked the participants of the regional working group for development of the International North-South Transport…
Chabahar port attracts five investments
Chabahar, Iran (PortSEurope) April 28, 2020 - The Ports & Maritime Organization (PMO) has reported that it helped with five investment contract on 2019 for…
Iran continues dry port development
Aprin, Iran (PortSEurope) April 27, 2020 – The country's largest inland, dry port, Aprin, has received a boost from an agreement between country’s customs office…
Chabahar intermodal corridor links India, Iran and Afghanistan
Chabahar, Iran (PortSEurope) April 24, 2020 - The first India-Iran-Afghanistan intermodal transport, using Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR - International Road Transports) has been completed, according…
16% increase port traffic in last Iranian calendar year
Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) April 23, 2020 - Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister, Mohammad Eslami, has reported that the capacity of Iran’s ports has reached…