Tartus
Tartus is a city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. It is the second largest port city in Syria.
Musical chairs for Russia’s Tartus naval base in Syria
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 9, 2024 – Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad regime collapsed, Russia is negotiating with the Islamist Hayat Tahrir...
Russia will try to “buy” its Tartus naval base from Islamists
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 8, 2024 – As Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad left the country and his regime collapsed in the face of rapidly advancing...
Russia and Iran are leaving Syria
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 6, 2024 – Iran and Russia began to evacuate their military personnel, embassy staff and citizens from Syria on December...
Russia might lose Tartus port and Syria
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 6, 2024 – A live-firing exercise was hurriedly organised for Russia’s naval ships that three days ago left their...
Update: Panicked Putin stages war games in East Med with ballistic missiles
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 3, 2024 – In response to the rapid advance of insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria where...
Western media suggest Russia’s navy flees Syria’s Tartus
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 3, 2024 – Under the headline First signs Russia is evacuating navy ships from Syria the Paris-based NavalNews web...
Update: Islamist HTS 100 km from Russia’s navy only Med Sea base
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 1, 2024 – After capturing Syria’s largest city of Aleppo, insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)...
Russia might lose its navy’s only Mediterranean port facility in Tartus
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) November 30, 2024 – Russia’s only naval base outside the former Soviet Union in Syria’s Eastern Mediterranean Sea port of...
Update: Iran wants naval and military bases in Syria
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) August 28, 2024 – Different Syrian and other media sources claim that Iran is seeking to expand a small naval base it...
Iran’s wishful thinking about a naval base in Syria
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) August 27, 2024 – Iran is seeking to expand a small naval base established in Tartus on the Syrian Mediterranean Sea coast...
Russia beefs up military presence in Libya, Africa
Tobruk, Libya (Ports Europe) May 15, 2024 – An investigation by the independent Russian website Verstka, the U.S. government funded Radio Free Europe/Radio...
Update: Can Russia add Libya’s Tobruk port to Tartus in Syria?
Tobruk, Libya (Ports Europe) February 4, 2024 – Fears are growing in Italy that Russia will base nuclear submarines at a planned naval port in eastern...
Maersk shipper ends calls in Syria
Geneva, Switzerland (Ports Europe) November 22, 2023 – The Maersk shipping company will end calls to ports in Syria as of December 1, 2023. The final...
Can Russia add Libya’s Tobruk port to its Tartus port in Syria?
Tobruk, Libya (PortSEurope) November 7, 2023 – Russia’s ambitions to control Libya’s deepwater ports of Tobruk and Derna is again on the agenda of...
Syria wins if the project to activate oil pipeline to Iraq materialises
Baniyas, Syria (Ports Europe) August 6, 2023 – Iraq is ready to discuss with Syria the development of the damaged and currently defunct oil export...
Russia pushes again for opening long-delayed industrial zones in Egypt
Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 – Sanctions-hit Moscow is desperately trying to create two long-delayed Russian industrial zones (RIZ) with a...
Oboronlogistics transports Russian cargo to Syria
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) November 16, 2022 – State-owned Oboronlogistics LLC has been transporting Russian cargo to Syria, and also bringing...
Russia delivers cargo to Syrian port of Tartus
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 31, 2022 – Russia has delivered cargo from the port of Novorossiysk to the Syrian port of Tartus. The cargo...
Russia’s government to save sanctions hit ports in occupied Crimea with Syrian cargo
Feodosia, Crimea, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 25, 2022 – Severely hit by the sanctions imposed on Ukraine’s Crimea after its annexation by Russia in...
Iran proposes Hamidiyeh port as Syrian free trade zone
Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) July 23, 2020 – Economic Deputy of the secretariat of the Supreme Council of Iran’s Free Trade, Industrial and...