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Turkey is a large country located in southeast Europe and Western Asia. It borders Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia, Syria and Iraq. Its ports play an important role in the economy as it has long coastlines with the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea. Major ports are owned and operated by Turkish State Railways (TCDD) or the Turkish Maritime Organization (TDİ). Its top ports are Haydarpaşa (Istanbul), Mersin, Izmir, Eregli, Ambarli and Gemlik. The country is developing its role as an intermodal trade hub between Europe and Asia. The Turkish port operators association is TÜRKLİM-Türkiye Liman İşletmecileri Derneği.

ADY Express transports grain, wheat bran from Russia to Turkey

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) March 16, 2021 – ADY Express LLC, part of Azerbaijan Railways, has transported grain and wheat bran from Russia to Turkey...

Kalmar and Yilport strengthen long-term collaboration with a large new order for mobile equipment solutions

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has concluded a large order from YILPORT Holding Inc. for 27 new Kalmar machines: 11 reachstackers, four empty container handlers and...

Turkey’s Mersin port set for expansion

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 16, 2021 – The Transport and Infrastructure Ministry has announced that the capacity of Mersin port in Southeast...

Turkey: Container handling by port – Jan-Feb 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 15, 2021 – General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has published container handling statistics at Turkish ports...

Turkish ports handled 967,149 TEU in February 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 15, 2021 – The local General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in February 2021 its ports handled...

Global Ports’ trading statement shows business hit by pandemic

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 14, 2021 – Last Friday, Turkey’s Global Ports Holding Ltd (GPH) reported its trading statement for 2020 which...

Mersin Chamber of Shipping Chairman reviews port activities

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 12, 2021 – Mersin Chamber of Shipping (MDTO) Chairman Cihat Lokmanoğlu has visited Mersin International Port and met...

Mersin International Port plans expansion

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 1, 2021 – Last year, Mersin International Port (MIP) handled a total of 2.6 million TEU and 7.6 million tons of...

Trabzon port looks to benefit from opening of the Nakhichevan transport corridor

Trabzon, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 1, 2021 – Last November the Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia signed the...

Export cargo from Turkey and China was transported in Baku Port

News Release – Port of Baku – Export cargo from Turkey and China was transported in Baku Port on February 6 We would like to note that...

Aktau port supports first test shipment of “cathode copper” along the Trans-Caspian international transport route

Aktau, Kazahkstan (Ports Europe) February 23, 2021 – The Port of Aktau and Azurite Logistics have organised the first test shipment of cathode copper...

Danish Ambassador to Ankara Danny Annan visits Mersin Chamber of Shipping

Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – Danish Ambassador to Ankara, Turkey, Danny Annan has visited Mersin Chamber of Shipping and met with...

Turkish ports handled 986,025 TEU in January 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – The local General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in January 2021 its ports handled...

Local university seeks to help Filyos Valley Project

Zonguldak, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – Bülent Ecevit University has held a Filyos Workshop to discuss scientific contribution to the...

COSCO Shipping Ports – Overseas Terminals Throughput – January 2021

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – In the first month of 2021, COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd has reported container traffic of over 8.6...

DP World sees freight load rise with recent railway investment

DP World Yarimca Port, the key container terminal in Turkey’s industrial and coastal province of Kocaeli, posted a considerable increase in its loads in 2020...

ECO train to link Islamabad, Tehran and Istanbul

Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) February 16, 2021 – The long dormant project for a container-carrying Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) train, which made...

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