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.
Landlocked Uzbekistan seeks export routes to Europe via Georgian Black Sea ports
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (PortSEurope) July 31, 2022 – Landlocked Uzbekistan, trying to avoid transit via western sanctions hit Russia, is looking for ways...
Green corridor between ports in the Caspian Sea
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) June 16, 2022 – Baku International Sea Port, Azerbaijan’s largest port in the Caspian Sea, continues development of its...
Desperate Russia looking to Iran’s ports as a way to bypass western sanctions
Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) May 30 – Desperately trying to find a way to avoid harsh international sanctions affecting Russian transport and logistics,...
Russia plans dredging of the Volga-Don Canal
Rostov-on-Don, Russia (PortSEurope) May 3, 2022 – Russia is planning for a €1 billion dredging, locks modernisation and other improvements project to...
Three more container ships to double the cargo capacity of the Middle Corridor between Aktau and Baku
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) April 19, 2022 – As of September the number of ships that operate the Caspian Sea line between the Aktau in Kazakhstan and...
Two feeder vessels to double the capacity of Turkmenbashi-Baku container line
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) April 18, 2022 – Two feeder vessels started regular sailing between the Turkmen port of Turkmenbashi and the Azerbaijani...
International sanctions against Russia leads Kazakhstan to seek port alternatives
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) March 13, 2022 – International sanctions against Russia has forced Kazakhstan to seek alternative routes to export, import...
Delegation of Turkmenistan to the OSCE made a statement on “Priorities of Turkmenistan”
Delegation of Turkmenistan to the OSCE made a statement on “Priorities of Turkmenistan in the fields of economy and environment” – February 1, 2022...
ADY Container delivers the first container block train on the Assaka-Baku
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 31, 2022 – The first block train, operated by ADY Container LLC, consisting of 50 containers departing from the...
Port of Turkmenbashi to receive finance from Islamic Development Bank
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) January 20, 2022 – The Port of Turkmenbashi is set to receive $90.15 million (€79.5 million) in financing...
OPEC Fund for International Development to loan $45 million for the Marine Merchant Fleet Project in Turkmenistan
Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) December 17, 2021 – The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) will loan $45 million (€39.8 million) for...
Port of Novorossiysk to lose Turkmen oil shipments
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) September 9, 2021 – Azerbaijan’s state energy company SOCAR and international community trader Vitol have come...
TRACECA and Turkmenistan discuss strengthening cooperation in Eurasia
On June 10, 2021, a meeting of Asset Assavbaev, Secretary General of the PS IGC TRACECA and Rashid Meredov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, took...
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...
Analysis – New container and breakbulk shipping line: from Yarimca, via Don-Volga rivers canal, into Aktau and Turkmenbashi, then to China and back
Yarimca, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 7, 2021 – The big losers of the yet to be launched new container and breakbulk shipping line, linking Marmara (Yarimca...
P&O Maritime Logistics launches new inland river route from Caspian Sea to DP World Yarimca
A new container and breakbulk shipping line from Marmara to the Caspian Sea, via the Russian inland waterways, saw the completion of its trial voyage at the...
Makhachkala port to be privatised
Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) March 16, 2021 – Makhachkala Sea Commercial Port JSC, on Russia’s west Caspian Sea coast may be offered for...