Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is a country in Central Asia, on the Northeast shores of the Caspian Sea, South of Russia and West of China. Its main Caspian posts are Aktau and Kuryk. Both ports are under development as the country seeks a role as a transit hub for cargo travelling between Asia and Europe. It is also interested in developing trade with other littoral Caspian Sea states.
Noatum Maritime to build two ships for KazMorTransFlot
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 20, 2025 – Noatum Maritime, the maritime & shipping division of AD Ports Group, has signed Heads of Terms...
AD Ports, KazMorTransFlot to build container ships for shrinking Caspian
Abu Dhabi, UAE (Ports Europe) January 17, 2025 – AD Ports Group, the large logistics and port operators in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and...
AD Ports is majority owner of Sarzha Grain Terminal in Kuryk port
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 16, 2025 – AD Ports Group, one of the largest logistics and port operators in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), became...
Kazakhstan reports December as a record month for grain exports
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 13, 2025 – Kazakhstan Railways has reported December as a record month for grain exports, including grain...
Kazakh ambassador visits Shahid Rajaee Port, Iran
Tehran, Iran (Ports Europe) December 27, 2024 – The Kazakh ambassador to Iran has visited Shahid Rajaee Port and called for improved trade relations in...
4.1 mln tonnes of cargo and 50,500 TEUs via the Middle Corridor in Jan-Nov’24
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 22, 2024 – Container shipments along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, Middle Corridor)...
New logistic hubs along Kazakhstan’s borders
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 12, 2024 – Full-fledged transport and logistics hubs are to be created in Central Asia and the Caspian region...
KazTransOil reports export numbers – Germany, Aktau, Makhachkala
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 8, 2024 – In January-November 2024, KazTransOil JSC transported 1.34 million tons of Kazakh oil through the...
Kazakhstan-China terminal in Xi’an increases TEU flow
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 6, 2024 – On November 29, 2024, the 300th container train left the Kazakhstan-China terminal in Xi’an,...
Jan De Nul completed dredging in Kazakh Kuryk port
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – Belgium’s Jan De Nul has completed, ahead of schedule, the four-month dredging project in the...
China, Kazakhstan and Hungary to build inter-modal cargo terminal in Budapest
Budapest, Hungary (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – China continues its successful efforts to invest in Hungary despite hostile European Union (EU)...
Shrinking Caspian – stranded ports, half empty ships
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) December 2, 2024 – The Caspian Sea is within weeks of reaching its lowest level on record, an Azerbaijani official said,...
Below target 53 mln tonnes of oil shipped via CPC terminal, Novorossiysk
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) November 29, 2024 – In January-October 2024, oil shipments at the sea terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC,...
North-South corridor capacity to double to 20 mln tonnes
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 29, 2024 – The capacity of the Kremlin-promoted International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), a key...
2.6 times more containers via Middle Corridor in Jan-Oct’24
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 17, 2024 – Container shipments along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, Middle Corridor),...
Kazakhstan’s ports handled 6.2 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Oct’24
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 15, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports of Aktau and Kuryk handled 6.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first 10...
New grain terminal in Kazakhstan’s Kuryk port
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – A new grain terminal with a capacity of 1 million tonnes per year has been commissioned in...
New intermodal cargo terminal in Azerbaijan’s Alyat port
Alyat, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) November 12, 2024 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and China created a joint venture to build a new 40-hectare large intermodal...
China joins the Middle Corridor Multimodal JV via CRTC
Xi’an, China (Ports Europe) November 11, 2024 – China, via its state-owned China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRTC), is to join the...
Kazakhstan has transport corridor talks in France with CMA CGM
Paris, France (Ports Europe) November 6, 2024 – On a visit to France, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman...