Aktau
The seaport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, is located on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea at the intersection of several international transport corridors. The port allows for the transportation of dry cargo, crude oil and petroleum products from east to west, from north to south and back to Iran, Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
Kazakhstan’s ports handled 1.37 mln tonnes of cargo in H1’24 – really?
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) July 27, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports handled 1.37 million tonnes of cargo in the first six months of the...
KazMunayGas ships oil to Makhachkala
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – State energy company KazMunayGas (KMG) has reported that two of its tankers transported 406,977 tons of...
Kazakhstan’s Aktau port with record 5,100 TEUs in May
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau handled over 5,100 TEUs in May 2024, setting its own record for the...
Oil terminal in Aktau returned to the state
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) June 4, 2024 – An oil terminal worth $66 million with an area of ​​134 hectares (1.34 sq km), Kazakhstan’s Caspian...
Kazakhstan adopts 2024-2028 maritime infrastructure plan
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) May 23, 2024 – The capacity of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports of Aktau and Kuryk will be increased by +50% and container...
Lithuania invited to projects in Kuryk and Aktau ports
Vilnius, Lithuania (Ports Europe) May 21, 2024 – Lithuanian investors should participate in infrastructure projects in Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports...
Kazakhstan, Turkey to agree on multimodal cargo transportation
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – Kazakhstan and Turkey are to ratify an intergovernmental agreement on international multimodal cargo...
Port of Aktau sees cargo up +14% in first quarter
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – In the first quarter of 2024, Aktau port handled 1.1 million tons of transshipment cargo, up +14%...
Kazakhstan to begin the delayed construction of container hub in Aktau
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) March 28, 2024 – After a lot of talk and announcements in the past year, Kazakhstan is finally about to begin the...
Ports of Baku, Batumi, Aktau, Kuryk and Turkmenbashi visit Valencia
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2024 – Aiming at enhancing the safety, resilience, and sustainability of supply chains between Asia and Europe,...
€10 billion for a petrochemical complex and shipbuilding plant in Kazakhstan
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 28, 2024 – South Korean companies Nexstar Engineering and KSTN are considering the construction of a new...
Kazakhstan to dredge Kuryk and Aktau ports
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 26, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports of Kuryk will be dredged in 2024, while Aktau, the country’s...
50,000 tonnes of Kazakh ammonium nitrate to be exported via Aktau-Hovsan-Batumi ports
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) February 21, 2024 – After exporting KazAzot’s ammonium nitrate (3,000 tonnes) through the Caspian Sea port of Aktau in...
Caspian Sea water levels study to inform Aktau Port adaptation
News – HR Wallingford – February 20, 2024 Over the next 18 months, HR Wallingford will be carrying out a study for The World Bank to assess how...
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%...
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...
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...