Turkey
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.
Turkey looks to build Cypriot port base
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 27, 2020 – The increased and controversial activities of Turkish ships in the Eastern Mediterranean has led the...
Turkey’s Global Ports Holding Plc reports reduced financials for H1 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 20, 2020 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, has...
Maersk Blockchain Tradelens program is now active on Yilport
The Yilport-TradeLens cooperation has started. As of July 2020, data flow started at Yilport Gebze and Gemport Terminals in Turkey – August 18, 2020...
Cihat Lokmanoğlu, Chairman, Mersin Chamber of Shipping, comments on Beirut port
Mersin, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 10, 2020 – Speaking to the local Refleks newspaper, Cihat Lokmanoğlu, Chairman of the Board of Mersin Chamber of...
Turkey: Container handling by port authority January-July 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 17, 2020 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanı) has published figures for...
Turkey: Container handling January-July 2020
lyIstanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 17, 2020 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanı) has published ports’...
Turkey makes ports available to Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 10, 2020 – Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Lebanon on...
Visit of Turkish Foreign Minister to Malta and Libya, August 5-6, 2020
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Malta and Libya on 5-6 August 2020 – August 6, 2020 Minister Çavuşoğlu met with Minister for...
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...
OYAK and NYK to build $110 mln port in northwest Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 3, 2020 – In 2019, Oyak, the Turkish military’s pension fund, in a joint venture with Japan’s Nippon Yusen...
Turkish ports reports increased total cargo in first half of 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 30, 2020 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, the General Directorate of Maritime Affairs, has announced...
Turkey’s Hopaport releases 6-month traffic figures
Trabzon, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 29, 2020 – In the first six months of 2020, 103 ships visited Hopaport with a total cargo of 475,041 tons. Of the...
New Saros port receives environmental challenge
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 28, 2020 – Earlier this month, BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation (BOTAS), the state-owned crude oil and natural gas...
Baku port: Container Trains from China to Turkey arriving faster
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) July 28, 2020 – ADY Container, a subsidiary company of Azerbaijan Railways, the members of the Trans-Caspian International...
BDY Group acquires Russian Petgaz, Turkey’s largest capacity LPG terminal
Iskenderun, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 27, 2020 – Ankara-based BDY Group has acquired Russian Petgaz Corp which has Turkey’s largest storage capacity...
Turkey: Container handling by port for January-June 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 26, 2020 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanı) has published figures for...
Safi Derince International Port to purchase Kalmar cranes
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 24, 2020 – Safi Derince International Port has awarded a contract to Finland’s Kalmar for two Zero Emission...