Turkey
Turkey is a large country located in southeast Europe and Western Asia. It borders Bulgaria, Greece, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Georgia, Syria and Iraq. Its ports play an important role in the economy as it has long coastlines with the Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea. Major ports are owned and operated by Turkish State Railways (TCDD) or the Turkish Maritime Organization (TDİ). Its top ports are Haydarpaşa (Istanbul), Mersin, Izmir, Eregli, Ambarli and Gemlik. The country is developing its role as an intermodal trade hub between Europe and Asia. The Turkish port operators association is TÜRKLİM-Türkiye Liman İşletmecileri Derneği.
Mersin Chamber of Shipping Chairman reviews port activities
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 12, 2021 – Mersin Chamber of Shipping (MDTO) Chairman Cihat Lokmanoğlu has visited Mersin International Port and met...
Environmentalists protest at Mersin International Port expansion
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 10, 2021 – Environmentalists have reacted against a plan by Mersin Port Authority (MIP) to start an extension of the...
Mersin International Port plans expansion
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 1, 2021 – Last year, Mersin International Port (MIP) handled a total of 2.6 million TEU and 7.6 million tons of...
Trabzon port looks to benefit from opening of the Nakhichevan transport corridor
Trabzon, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 1, 2021 – Last November the Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia signed the...
Export cargo from Turkey and China was transported in Baku Port
News Release – Port of Baku – Export cargo from Turkey and China was transported in Baku Port on February 6 We would like to note that...
Aktau port supports first test shipment of “cathode copper” along the Trans-Caspian international transport route
Aktau, Kazahkstan (Ports Europe) February 23, 2021 – The Port of Aktau and Azurite Logistics have organised the first test shipment of cathode copper...
Danish Ambassador to Ankara Danny Annan visits Mersin Chamber of Shipping
Mersin, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – Danish Ambassador to Ankara, Turkey, Danny Annan has visited Mersin Chamber of Shipping and met with...
Turkish ports handled 986,025 TEU in January 2021
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – The local General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported that in January 2021 its ports handled...
Local university seeks to help Filyos Valley Project
Zonguldak, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – Bülent Ecevit University has held a Filyos Workshop to discuss scientific contribution to the...
COSCO Shipping Ports – Overseas Terminals Throughput – January 2021
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 18, 2021 – In the first month of 2021, COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd has reported container traffic of over 8.6...
DP World sees freight load rise with recent railway investment
DP World Yarimca Port, the key container terminal in Turkey’s industrial and coastal province of Kocaeli, posted a considerable increase in its loads in 2020...
Turkey’s organized industrial zones continue to grow
Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) February 16, 2021 – Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan has said that over $2.5 billion (TL 17 billion) has been invested by...
ECO train to link Islamabad, Tehran and Istanbul
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) February 16, 2021 – The long dormant project for a container-carrying Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) train, which made...
DFDS’ business in the Mediterranean grew 7.3% in Q4, 2020
Copenhagen, Denmark (PortSEurope) February 14, 2021 – DFDS, a Danish international transport and logistics company, said that its Q4, 2020 freight...
Aktau port develops multimodal service
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) February 10, 2021 – On January 29, 2021, the first trial batch of copper cathodes in containers arrived in Turkey using a...
EKOL logistics to start new Ro-Ro service between Izmir and Tarragona port
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) February 10, 2021 – The president of the Port of Tarragona, Josep M Cruset, and the president of the logistics company...
Maersk expands cold chain options for fresh fruit from the Black Sea and the Mediterranean to Central Russia
Copenhagen, Denmark – January 27, 2021 On the 21st of December 2020, the first refrigerated containers heading from Mersin, Turkey, were dispatched from...
Turkey: Container handling statistics by ports in 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) February 4, 2021 – The General Directorate of Maritime Affairs has reported container handling statistics at Turkish ports...
Turkey: Total container handling statistics at Turkish ports in 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) February 4, 2021 – The Turkish authorities have reported total container handling statistics (TEU) at its ports in 2020....
Turkish Foreign Minister visits Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on 1-2 February 2021 to discuss the Cyprus issue and other...