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Increased demand for the Middle Corridor

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – Changes in global cargo flows have led to increased demand for the Trans-Caspian International...

Plans for a Turkmenbashi-Amirabad feeder line

Amirabad, Iran (Ports Europe) February 19, 2024 – Turkmenistan and Iran are planning to resume shipping between the Caspian Sea ports of Turkmenbashi and...

Sanctions? Georgia as Russia’s “Auto Heaven”

Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) February 18, 2024 – Hundreds of cars are supplied to Russia from Georgia every day, directly or through intermediary...

Swiss ambassador visits Baku port

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Switzerland’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Thomas Stehlin visited the country’s Caspian Sea port of...

First KazAzot ammonium nitrate exported via Aktau

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – KazAzot ammonium nitrate has been exported for the first time through Kazakhstan‘s Caspian Sea...

Update: Van Oord dredging vessels to start work in Burgas

Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 14, 2024 – Two Van Oord split hopper barges (Pieter Caland and the Cornelis Lely) and backhoe dredger Simson...

Aktau port handled 360,000 tonnes of cargo in January’24

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 13, 2024 – Cargo turnover of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau in January 2024 increased by 12.7%...

$31 billion investment for Kazakhstan rail, sea, air & road transport

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 13, 2024 – A pool of investment projects worth more than $31 billion in the fields of railway, sea, aviation...

KazTransOil exported 287,000 tons of oil via the port of Aktau

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – In January 2024, KazTransOil exported 287,000 tons of oil via the Caspian Sea port of Aktau. This is...

Kazakhstan, Greece talk Middle Corridor cooperation

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – The Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Greece Erlan Baudarbek-Kozhataev has met with the Mayor of the Greek...

World Bank, HR Wallingford step into shrinking Caspian problem

Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 12, 2024 – Alarmed by the shrinking waters of the Caspian, Kazakhstan invited the World Bank (WB) to conduct a...

Van Oord dredging vessels near Burgas port

Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 11, 2024 – The semi-submersible vessel Seaway Albatross is approaching the Bosphorus Strait today on its way...

Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan to eliminate Middle Corridor bottlenecks

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 11, 2024 – Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have agreed an updated road map for the elimination of the bottlenecks...

25.5% of Astrakhan port given to Russia’s military behemoth Rostec

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) February 9, 2024 – Russia continues to reorient its economy towards a war footing. The latest move is to transfer a...

Update: OTEKO modernises its Taman terminals

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) February 9, 2024 – Russia’s OTEKO company, operator of two marine terminals in the port of Taman (bulk and liquid),...

Azerbaijan borrows to increase its Caspian fleet

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 2, 2024 – Azerbaijan’s ambition is to continue to dominate shipping and cargo handling in the Caspian Sea region...

The Middle Corridor to halve China-Europe cargo transit time

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 2, 2024 – In the past year, we published more than 100 articles about the development of the Trans-Caspian...

Second block train for 2024 via Middle Corridor in Baku

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) February 2, 2024 – A second block train for the year sent from China’s Xi’an arrived at Baku Port on February 2...

Kazakhstan and Romania push Middle Corridor development

Bucharest, Romania (Ports Europe) February 1, 2024 – In Bucharest, the Ministries of Transport of Kazakhstan and Romania have signed a memorandum of...

Kazakhstan invites Port of Rotterdam to manage its ports

Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) January 31, 2024 – The Port of Rotterdam has been invited to participate in projects to transform the Caspian Sea...

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