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Kocaeli (Izmit)

Kocaeli Province is a province of Turkey and one of only three not to have the same official name as its capital, İzmit, which is thus also sometimes called Kocaeli. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about 100 km east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. It is Turkey’s leading cargo port.

Turkey: Seaports – Cargo handled – January-November 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 18, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported cargo traffic for January to November 2024....

Turkey: Ranking of TEU traffic by port – January-November 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 16, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for November 2024...

Ranking: Turkish – TEU traffic by port – Jan-Oct 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) November 15, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for October 2024....

Ranking: Turkish seaports – cargo handled in Jan-Oct 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) November 13, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported total seaport cargo traffic for...

Turkey: Seaport cargo by port, Jan-Sep 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) October 18, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported total seaport cargo traffic for September...

Ranking: Turkish – TEU traffic by port – Jan-Sep 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) October 14, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for September 2024....

Ranking: Turkish seaports – TEU handled in Jan-Aug 2024 by port

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 11, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported total container (TEU) traffic for...

Ranking: Turkish seaports – cargo handled in Jan-Jul 2024 by port

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 20, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported total seaport cargo traffic for January-July...

Ranking: Turkish seaports – TEU handled in Jan-Jul 2024

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) August 19, 2024 – The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has reported container (TEU) traffic for January-July 2024....

DP World Yarimca starts rail service to avoid Red Sea problems

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 3, 2024 – DP World Yarimca has started using a previously unused rail route from China to Turkey to ensure the...

Police make third largest cocaine haul in Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 11, 2024 – Turkish police have seized the third-largest haul of cocaine in the country’s history amidst...

COSCO Shipping Lines visits Safiport, Turkey

Kocaeli, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 8, 2024 – A delegation from COSCO SHIPPING Lines has visited Derince-based Safiport. It was comprised by Daniel...

Container ship topples three gantry cranes in Turkey’s EVYAPPORT

Izmit, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 23, 2024 – Over $50 million are the damages on port infrastructure from the collision of Hong Kong-flagged giant...

Turkey’s Poliport plans storage upgrade to liquid storage facility

Kocaeli, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 1, 2023 – Poliport is planning to increase its liquid cargo storage capacity with its $5.5 million renewal and...

Turkey: Seaports cargo report – September 2023

Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) October 17, 2023 – The Turkish authorities have published cargo figures for September 2023. Turkey: Seaports cargo report...

Turkey: Container (TEU) report: Jan-Jun 2023

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 20, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, seaports in Turkey handled 6.09 million containers (TEU), compared to 6.38...

Turkey – Total container (TEU) handling by port, January 2023

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 17, 2023 – Turkish container ports handled 993,808 containers (TEU) in January 2023, compared to 1,111,995 TEU in...

Turkey – Total container (TEU) handling, by port, 2022

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 5, 2023 – Turkish container ports handled 12.36 million container (TEU), slightly down on the previous year’s...

Ranking: Top 5 Turkish container ports – January-November 2022

Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) December 15, 2022 – Turkish seaports handled 11.32 million containers (TEU) in the first 11 months of 2022. This is a slight...

Turkish seaports – Total cargo handled by port – January-October 2022

Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 14, 2022 – In the first 10 months of 2022, Turkish seaports handled 454.76 million tons of cargo. The top five...

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