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Uzbekistan pushing for access to Iranian, Turkish and Pakistani ports

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (PortSEurope) August 21, 2022 – Landlocked Uzbekistan keeps pushing for access to Iranian, Turkish and Pakistani ports. Uzbekistan...

Port of Baku increases traffic in dry cargo

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) August 19, 2022 – The Caspian Sea port of Baku has increased traffic in dry cargo to 666,000 tons in the first half of...

Khazar Sea Shipping Lines starts regular services to Russian ports in Caspian Sea

Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) August 18, 2022 – Khazar Sea Shipping Lines has started regular services to the Russian ports of Astrakhan and Makhachkala in...

Thessaloniki Port Authority expands intermodal operations to Niš, Serbia

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) August 18, 2022 – Thessaloniki Port Authority is expanding intermodal operations to Niš, Serbia, with a new regular...

RUSCON has launched a multimodal container service from Japan to Kazakhstan

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) August 18, 2022 – RUSCON has launched a multimodal container service from Japan to Kazakhstan. It operates between the port...

Makhachkala starts handling container cargo

Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) August 17, 2022 – For the first time in recent years, containerized cargo was handled at the Caspian Sea Makhachkala port....

Ranking: Ambarlı is top Turkish container port in January-July 2022

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 17, 2022 – Ambarlı is the top Turkish container port in January-July 2022 with 1.72 million TEU, according to...

Ranking: Kocaeli is top Turkish cargo port in January-July 2022

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 17, 2022 – Kocaeli was top Turkish cargo port in January-July 2022. In the same period, Turkish ports handled a...

Turkish seaports see total cargo up +6.6% in January-July 2022

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 17, 2022 – Turkish seaports see total cargo up +6.6% in January-July 2022. They handled 319.6 million tons (mt) of...

Kazakhstan exports oil via Baku port to Ceyhan in Turkey

Mersin, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 16, 2022 – Kazakhstan is to export oil via Baku port to Ceyhan in Turkey using the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)...

Port of A Coruña cargo up +16.28% in first half of 2022

Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) August 16, 2022 – Port of A Coruña was cargo up +16.28% in first half of 2022 at over 6.3 million tonnes (mt), on the same...

Rosatom takes stake in Delo Group

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) August 11, 2022 – The Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, ROSATOM, has exercised an option to increase its equity stake...

Port of Baku handled 18,376 rail wagons, up +25.8%

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) August 10, 2022 – In the first 6 months of this year, the Port of Baku handled 18,376 rail wagons, up +25.8% on the same...

Port of Cagliari issues project financing tender for Marina di Porto Rotondo

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) August 9, 2022 – The Port of Cagliari issues project financing tender transform the port area between the Sanità...

SEE ports as key point for drug smuggling and illicit trade

Geneva, Switzerland (PortSEurope) August 7, 2022 – Dozens of seaports in Southeastern Europe (SEE) as well as Danube river ports are key entry and exit...

Port of Ancona forecasts increasing passenger traffic

Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) August 3, 2022 – The Port of Ancona forecasts increasing passenger traffic for the season following growth so far this year....

Ports of Singapore and Rotterdam sign Green and Digital Corridor agreement

Rotterdam, Netherlands (PortSEurope) August 2, 2022 – The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have...

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