Turkmenbashi
Turkmenbashi is a port-city in Balkan Province in Turkmenistan, on the Türkmenbaşy Gulf of the Caspian Sea’s Eastern coast. It is an important transshipment centre and terminus of the Central Asian Railway, and it has a rail-ferry link to Baku, Azerbaijan. An oil refinery and a petrochemical industry in the city are linked by pipelines to oil and gas fields. It is a port on the Lapis Lazuli trade corridor.
Russia and Iran: Sanctions busting in focus during port visit
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) July 3, 2023 – Russia and Iran, the two most sanctioned countries in the world, continue their attempts to improve cargo...
Sanctions-busting port of Makhachkala to be privatised by September
Makhachkala, Russia (PortSEurope) July 3, 2023 – The long delayed privatisation of Russia’s Caspian Sea port of Makhachkala is to be completed by the end...
Turkmenistan’s ferries and container ships run successful lines to Baku
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – Turkmen ferries Berkarar and Bagtyar made 70 voyages from the country’s largest Caspian Sea port...
Talks start over Astrakhan-Turkmenbashi shipping service
St. Petersburg, Russia (PortSEurope) June 20, 2023 – Astrakhan shipping companies are interested in setting up a shipping line to operate a service with...
Landlocked Uzbekistan to use Baku port fertilizer terminal
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) June 13, 2023 – Landlocked Uzbekistan will start using a new terminal for mineral fertilisers in Azerbaijan’s Caspian port...
Aktau declares a state of emergency – critically low level of Caspian
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) June 13, 2023 – The city officials in Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau declared a state of emergency over the...
EcoPorts certificate for Turkmenbashi port
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) June 5, 2023 – Tukrkmenistan’s Capsian port of Turkmenbashi was awarded a certificate for EcoPorts’...
Organization of Turkic States join transport corridor conference
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) May 4, 2023 – A delegation of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) joined the conference titled “International...
EU to ban transit of goods via Russia – here comes the Middle Corridor
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 25, 2023 – As part of the 11th package of European Union (EU) sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of...
Analysis: Sanctions busting Caspian Sea is drying up, new ships needed
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 26, 2023 – Recently, the lowering water level in the Caspian Sea has accelerated so much that it is jeopardising...
Second Caspian feeder line Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan starts with Uzbek cargo
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) January 26, 2023 – More than 100 (40-foot) containers were transshipped through Turkmenistan’s Caspian Sea port...
Turkmenbashi International Seaport more than doubles cargo in 2022
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) January 23, 2023 – Last year, the amount of transit cargo transported through the Turkmenbashi International...
Second feeder container line across Caspian from Turkmenistan to Azerbaijan
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) December 31, 2022 – Turkmenistan’s Merchant Marine Fleet will provide its Balkan vessel for the second feeder container...
Sanctions force Russia to ask for inclusion of its Caspian ports in the Lapis Lazuli corridor
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) December 8, 2022 – Hard pressed to move its trade in the southeast direction due to western sanctions, Russia is...
Desperate Moscow seeks unified rules for Caspian Sea corridor ports
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) November 19, 2022 – A desperate Moscow is seeking unified commercial and conventional rules for the ports in its sanctions...
EBRD researches sustainable transport connections between Central Asia and Europe
As trade volumes, particularly container traffic, between Asia and Europe continue to grow and as geopolitical events disrupt existing trade corridors, major...
Port of Constanta receives intermodal fertiliser from Uzbekistan
Constanța, Romania (Ports Europe) September 5, 2022 – The Port of Constanta has received intermodal fertiliser from Uzbekistan via a co-ordinated...