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.
Turkey to boost railway investments, directly connecting industrial zones to port cities
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 28, 2020 – Infrastructure and Transport Minister, Adil Karaismailoğlu, has said that the government plans...
CMA CGM to launch the TURKEY MED EXPRESS 2 connecting Turkey, Italy, France & Algeria
CMA CGM is pleased to announce the implementation of TMX 2 – TURKEY MED EXPRESS 2, the fastest ever maritime bridge between Turkey, Italy, France &...
Announcement of Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the issuance of a new illegal Turkish NAVTEX
Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs – November 21, 2020 Turkey today issued a new illegal NAVTEX, announcing the continuation of its illegal seismic...
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline exported about 21.4 million tons of crude oil loaded at Ceyhan terminal in first three quarters of 2020
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 23, 2020 – The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline exported 21.4 million tons of crude oil loaded on 214 tankers...
Politician criticises funds spent on Çandarlı Port
Aliaga, (PortSEurope) November 23, 2020 – Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi İzmir Deputy Sevda Erdan Kılıç, in a speech at the Plan and Budget Commission on...
Global Ports Holding announces Q3 2020 and 9 month results
Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, today announces its unaudited results for the nine months...
Azerbaijan and Turkey gain a direct road link from the Nagorno-Karabakh war
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – Lost in the small print of the ceasefire deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia, that ended six weeks of...
Calls for Giresun railway development to be in national interests
Giresun, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – Hasan Çakırmelikoğlu, Chairman of Giresun Chamber of Commerce and Industry, speaking baiut the...
MSC expands door-to-door distribution network ‘Trieste Express’ with new service
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has announced that it has added a vessel to the Trieste...
Speech by the Greek minister of foreign affairs at the “Thessaloniki Summit 2020”
“The Eastern Mediterranean in crisis” – November 5, 2020 Speech by the Greek minister of foreign affairs at the “Thessaloniki Summit...
Regional Cooperation Council to assume SEEMIC chairmanship in 2021
Chiefs of the Military Intelligence services of South East Europe (SEEMIC) met via videoconference for the twelfth year in a row on 4 November 2020, under the...
DP World Yarımca supports Turkish marble exports
News Release – DP World Yarımca, one of the largest ports in Turkey, reduced the costs and accelerated the marble exporter with its storage service and...
COSCO Shipping Ports – Overseas terminals – Q1,Q2,Q3 2020 TEU throughput
Hong Kong, China (PortSEurope) October 29, 2020 – Below is the container (TEU) throughput of COSCO Shipping Ports’ overseas terminals for the first...
Istanbul hosts the first-ever Turkish–Libyan Economic Forum
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 27, 2020 – The Libyan-Turkish Economic Platform started on October 13 in Istanbul aiming to boost bilateral...
Global Ports Holding signs sale and purchase agreement for Port Akdeniz
Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), the world’s largest independent cruise port operator, is pleased to announce that following a period of exclusive...
Turkey – Total port container handling by seaport – Jan-Sep 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 21, 2020 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanı) has published total...
Turkey – Total port container handling – Jan-Sep 2020
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 21, 2020 – In the first nine months of 2020, Turkish seaports handled a total of 5.39 million container units,...
Kanuni drilling ship arrives at Haydarpaşa port, Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 21, 2020 – The Turkish sea drilling ship, Kanuni, has arrived at Istanbul’s Haydarpaşa port on its way to...
Ukraine and Turkey are ready to deepen strategic partnership
The dialogue between Ukraine and Turkey is developing dynamically, the countries are ready to deepen the strategic partnership and develop cooperation in all...
Filyos port plays role in Black Sea gas exploration
Zonguldak, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 19, 2020 – Turkey Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has been operating Black Sea gas exploration activities from a...