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.
Sea Lines to start Karasu-Constanta port Ro-Ro service
Constanta, Romania (PortSEurope) February 2, 2021 – On February 4, 2021, the ship Vasaland will arrive in the port of Constanta, the ship that serves the...
Navantia manager meets Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 25, 2021 – Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held a meeting on 19 January 2021 with Francisco Javier Hergueta,...
Turkey’s Karasu port sees over 25% fall in cargo 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 24, 2021 – Karasu Port, which was constructed by IC İçtaş İnşaat and opened to service in 2017, reached 80%...
ADY Express increases transport of export-oriented goods by the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK)
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – On January 12, ADY Express LLC, part of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, started transporting export-oriented...
COSCO Shipping Ports Limited – Overseas terminals see quarterly increase in 2020
Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) January 19, 2021 – COSCO Shipping Ports Limited’ overseas terminals reported a Q4 2020 increase in container...
Bandırma port sees rise in cargo traffic in 2021
Bandırma, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 18, 2021 – Çelebi Bandırma Port has reported total cargo of 4.495 million tons in 2020, compared to 3.48...
Yilport to buy RTG cranes for Gemport facility in Turkey
Bursa, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 18, 2021 – Yılport Holding has announced that it has purchased Tire Laser Cranes (RTG) to be used in its Gemport...
Greece and Turkey to resume talks
Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) January 13, 2021 – Turkish and Greek officials have said that the two countries will restart discussions on January 25,...
Mersin International Port sets 2 million TEU record
Mersin, 7 January 2021 – Mersin International Port (MIP), Turkey’s largest container port, has become the first port in the country to exceed the 2...
Black Sea gas to support Filyos port development
Zonguldak, Turkey (PortSEurope) January 4, 2021 – Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Donmez said last week that the discovery of 405 billion...
Turkey’s Mersin International Port reports October and November 2020 as record months
Mersin, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 23, 2020 – Turkey’s largest container Mersin International Port (MIP) has reported 185,000 thousand TEU in...
Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad container rail service set to resume
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 18, 2020 – Following a meeting at the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), the national railways of Turkey,...
First container train carrying cargo from Turkey to China arrived in Baku Port on December 10
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) December 11, 2020 – A train, which will cover a total of 8,693 kilometers, has passed through the Baku Port and headed for...
Yilport announces pandemic measures and emergency surcharge
Yilport Holding extends precautionary actions against COVID-19 pandemic and standardizes them in all 22 terminals across 10 countries – December 8, 2020...
In January-November 2020, Hopaport handled over 900,000 tons of cargo
Trabzon, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 6, 2020 – In January-November this year, Hopaport handled a total of 189 ships and 901,035 tons of cargo, close to...
Turkey is expanding its drilling operations in the Black Sea
Filyos, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 7, 2020 – Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Fatih Donmez, has said that the drilling ship Kanuni has docked at...
Analysis – Central Asia to help China bypass Russia en route to Europe
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) December 3 – It is China, again, that is emerging as an unlikely winner from the agreed direct link between Turkey and...
Ukraine is interested in implementing joint investment projects with Turkish companies – minister
Today, November 29, Minister of Infrastructure Vladyslav Krykliy is part of the delegation of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal on a two-day working...
Ports included in range of Turkey-Qatar agreements
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 30, 2020 – Turkey and Qatar have signed 10 new deals at a joint meeting held at the presidential complex in...
Alsancak port restart Ro-Ro operations
Izmir, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 28, 2020 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has approved an application for the port of Alsancak (Izmir)...