Kocaeli (Izmit)
Kocaeli Province is a province of Turkey and one of only three not to have the same official name as its capital, İzmit, which is thus also sometimes called Kocaeli. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about 100 km east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. It is Turkey’s leading cargo port.
COSCO Shipping Lines visits Safiport, Turkey
Kocaeli, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 8, 2024 – A delegation from COSCO SHIPPING Lines has visited Derince-based Safiport. It was comprised by Daniel...
Container ship topples three gantry cranes in Turkey’s EVYAPPORT
Izmit, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 23, 2024 – Over $50 million are the damages on port infrastructure from the collision of Hong Kong-flagged giant...
Turkey’s Poliport plans storage upgrade to liquid storage facility
Kocaeli, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 1, 2023 – Poliport is planning to increase its liquid cargo storage capacity with its $5.5 million renewal and...
Turkey: Seaports cargo report – September 2023
Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 17, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published cargo figures for September 2023. Turkey: Seaports cargo report...
Turkey: Container (TEU) report: Jan-Jun 2023
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 20, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, seaports in Turkey handled 6.09 million containers (TEU), compared to 6.38...
Turkey – Total container (TEU) handling by port, January 2023
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 17, 2023 – Turkish container ports handled 993,808 containers (TEU) in January 2023, compared to 1,111,995 TEU in...
Turkey – Total container (TEU) handling, by port, 2022
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 5, 2023 – Turkish container ports handled 12.36 million container (TEU), slightly down on the previous year’s...
Turkish seaports – Total cargo handled by port – January-October 2022
Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 14, 2022 – In the first 10 months of 2022, Turkish seaports handled 454.76 million tons of cargo. The top five...
Ranking: Top 5 Turkish container ports – January-October 2022
Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 11, 2022 – Turkish seaports handled 10.3 million containers (TEU) in the first ten months of 2022. This is a slight...
Ranking: Top 5 Turkish container ports – January-September 2022
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) October 19, 2022 – In January-September 2022, Turkish seaports handled a total of 9.35 million containers (TEU). This is a...
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...
Ranking: Kocaeli is top Turkish cargo port in first half of 2022
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 12, 2022 – In the first half of 2022, Kocaeli was ranked as the top Turkish port by cargo handled. In January-June...
Ranking: Ambarlı is top Turkish container port in first half 2022
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 8, 2022 – Ambarlı is the top Turkish container port in first half 2022 with 1.47 million TEU, according to official...
Maersk to divert some cargo from Port of Constanta to Safiport in Turkey
Constanța, Romania (PortSEurope) July 6, 2022 – A.P. Moller – Maersk has announced that some cargo from the Romanian port of Constanța will be...
Ranking: Kocaeli the top Turkish cargo port in Jan-May 2022
Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 14, 2022 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has published statistics for total cargo handled by Turkish...
Turkey: Cargo handling statistics at Turkish ports by harbour masters, January-April 2022
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 10, 2022 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported total cargo statistics for Turkish seaports for...