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Samsun port is Turkey’s largest port in the Black Sea region. It is the only port on the Black Sea with a railway connection. It has a large hinterland. It is the stopping point of cargoes coming from and to Anatolia. With its railroad and highway connections, Samsun includes the cities of Sinop, Corum, Amasya, Ordu, Sivas, Erzincan, Yozgat, Tokat, Kastamonu, Ankara, Kirsehir, Kayseri, Nigde, Konya, and Malatya in its hinterland.

Analysis laboratory to be established at Samsun Port, Turkey

Samsun, Turkey (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – Samsun Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry, İbrahim Sağlam, has said that 10 analysis...

QTerminals to operate Antalya Port until 2047

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 17, 2021 – In October last year, QTerminals, a Qatari commercial port operating company, purchased Ortadoğu...

Ranking: Turkish container ports – January-November 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 10, 2021 – In the first 11 months of 2021, Turkey had five ports which handled over 1 million TEU, with Ambarlı...

Turkey: Cargo handling statistics by port authority, January-November 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 10, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported total cargo statistics for Turkish seaports...

Ranking: Turkish container ports – January-October 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 10, 2021 – In the first 10 months of 2021, Turkey had five ports which handled over 1 million TEU, with Ambarlı...

Turkey: Cargo handling statistics by port authority, January-October 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 8, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported total cargo statistics for Turkish seaports...

Ranking: Turkish container ports – January-September 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 12, 2021 – In the first nine months of 2021, Turkey had five ports which handled over 1 million TEU, with Ambarlı...

Ranking: Turkish container ports – January-August 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 4, 2021 – Turkey has five ports which have handled over 1 million containers (TEU) in the first eight months of...

Lack of analysis resource hits pepper export from port of Samsun

Samsun, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 13, 2021 – Capia peppers are grown in the Bafra district of Samsun Province, on the Black Sea coast of Northern...

Ranking: Turkish container ports in Jan-Aug 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 6, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported containers handled by port for the period...

Turkey: Cargo handling statistics by port authority, January-August 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 6, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported total cargo statistics for Turkish seaports...

Turkey: Cargo handling statistics by port January-July 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 9, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported cargo handling statistics at Turkish ports...

Container handling statistics at Turkish ports by port, January-June 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 7, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported container handling statistics by port,...

Cargo handling statistics at Turkish ports by port, January-June 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 7, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in January-June 2021, foreign trade...

Analysis – A new Caspian Sea-Black Sea transport corridor to link port of Baku with Turkey’s Samsun and Trabzon, could diminish Poti port

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) June 9, 2021 – Construction of the Azerbaijani section of the railway to Azerbaijan’s landlocked exclave of...

Turkey: Container handling by port – Jan-May 2021

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 4, 2021 – General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has published container handling statistics at Turkish ports...

Samsun port-Kalin rail line upgrades Turkey’s Black Sea to Mediterranean

Samsun, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 28, 2020 – Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Adil Karaismailoğlu, has announced the completion of construction...

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