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 ports set for European management
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 29, 2024 – The government will approve the management of its seaports, Aktau and Kuryk, by European companies....
Urgent dredging to start in Baku port, Caspian Sea shrinks
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 10, 2024 – Dredging will start in the coming days in Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea port of Baku, which will allow access...
Kazakhstan plans dredging of Ural-Caspian Canal
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) January 2, 2024 – Kazakhstan plans to start dredging of the Ural River-Caspian Sea Canal in 2024 and include the...
Kazakh ports’ cargo statistics for Jan-Nov don’t make sense
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 13, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports increased by 10% to 6.5 million tonnes in the...
Shrinking Caspian Sea forces Kazakhstan to dredge its ports
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 13, 2023 – Faced with a shrinking Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan’s port of Kuryk starts urgent dredging works. They...
New service links Aktau, Turkmenbashi & Constanta ports
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 12, 2023 – ADY Container LLC is launching a new service connecting Kazakhstan’s Aktau and Turkmenbashi...
Kazakhstan increase oil exports via Port of Aktau
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 11, 2023 – In January-November 2023, Kazakhstan exported 3.62 million tons of oil via the port of Aktau. This...
Chinese state-owned behemoths to develop Kazakhstan’s transport infrastructure
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 10, 2023 – China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) wants to build container hubs in Kazakhstan’s Caspian...
Chinese giant CCECC interested in Kazakhstan’s transport infrastructure
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) December 4, 2023 – China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) wants to participate in the development of...
Kazakhstan’s Kuryk port handled 1.8 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Oct’23
Kuryk, Kazakstan (Ports Europe) November 29, 2023 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Kuryk processed more than 1.8 million tonnes of cargo during...
AD Ports Group, KazMorTransFlot acquire two tankers for Caspian
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 28, 2023 – AD Ports Group and KazMorTransFlot (KMTF) have announced the acquisition and start of operations of...
30 mln tonnes port capacity in Kazakhstan by 2030
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 24, 2023 – The capacity of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports will be increased to more than 30 million tonnes...
Port of Aktau increases cargo handling +22% in Jan-Oct 2023
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 20, 2023 – In January-October 2023, the Port of Aktau handled 3.8 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of +22%...
Kazakhstan increases oil exports from Aktau port
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 17, 2023 – In January-October 2023, Kazakhstan exported 2.8 million tons of oil from the Caspian Sea port of...
Aktau port keeps increasing cargo handling
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) October 6, 2023 – The cargo turnover of Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau in the January-September increased by...
Georgian delegation attends Middle Corridor event in Aktau
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) October 3, 2023 – A delegation from JSC Georgian Railway joined a meeting of Middle Corridor partners to discuss...
Port of Aktau hosts Middle Corridor event
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) October 2, 2023 – On September 29, the next meeting of the working group on the development of the Trans-Caspian...
EU, G7 delegation visits Port of Aktau
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – A delegation of ambassadors of the EU and G7 countries has visited the Caspian Sea port of Aktau,...
China’s port of Lianyungang visits Aktau, Kazakhstan
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 19, 2023 – A delegation of the regional government and the port of Lianyungang, China, has visited the port of...
Port of Aktau increases freight handling
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 4, 2023 – In the January-July period, more than 2.6 million tonnes of dry and oil bulk cargoes were...