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Latakia or Lattakia is the principal port city of Syria and capital city of the Latakia Governorate located on the Mediterranean coast.

Latakia and Beirut ports might lose captagon “business”

Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) December 14, 2024 – With the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last weekend, the country’s largest Mediterranean...

Syria’s navy in Al-Bayda and Latakia ports destroyed

Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) December 11, 2024 – Israel attacked Syrian naval bases in the country ports of Al-Bayda (Elbeida) and Latakia during the...

Russia will try to “buy” its Tartus naval base from Islamists

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 8, 2024 – As Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad left the country and his regime collapsed in the face of rapidly advancing...

Update: Islamist HTS 100 km from Russia’s navy only Med Sea base

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 1, 2024 – After capturing Syria’s largest city of Aleppo, insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)...

Israel attacks Latakia in Syria

Damascus, Syria (Ports Europe) October 18, 2024 – The Syrian Mediterranean city-port of Latakia has been subject to an attack by Israel, according to...

Captagon drug via ports of Beirut, Latakia and Tripoli

Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) October 15, 2023 – The Syrian regime and Lebanese Hezbollah have adeptly woven the production, promotion, and smuggling of...

Hapag-Lloyd to stop providing services that connect the Port of Latakia in Syria with Piraeus and Damietta

Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) April 6, 2022 – Hapag-Lloyd has announced it will stop providing services connecting the Port of Latakia in Syria with the...

Container terminal in Syria’s port of Latakia, controlled by Iran, hit by an Israeli missile strike

Latakia, Syria (PortSEurope) December 7, 2021 – The container storage area of Syria’s Eastern Mediterranean Sea port of Latakia was hit by an Israeli...

Analysis – In a snub to Russia, Iran and Syria sign maritime cooperation agreement

Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) February 11, 2020 – Defying pressure from Moscow, Russia’s dependant Syria has signed an agreement on maritime cooperation...

Analysis – Russia’s ambitious plans for Syria’s port of Tartus

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) December 22, 2019 – Russia has announced that it is going to invest $500 million over four years in the Syrian Mediterranean...

Analysis – Iranian ambitions for the Syria’s Mediterranean coast

Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) November 18, 2019 – Iran has bolstered its military and economic presence along Syria’s Mediterranean coast, according to...

Analysis – Iran wants to take over Iraqi and Syrian cargo flow with Latakia port & railway line

Latakia, Syria (PortSEurope) July 16, 2019 – Iran, Syria and Iraq are discussing the construction of a railway line connecting the Iran’s Imam Khomeini...

Syria’s Parliament approves contract on Tartus port investments

Tartus, Syria (PortSEurope) June 12, 2019 – Syria’s parliament reports that it approved a bill to ratify a contract with Russian company STG...

Analysis – Syria signs 49-year contract for operation, overhaul of Tartus port with Russia’s Stroytransgaz

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – The Syrian authorities have concluded a 49-year investment contract with Russian company Stroytransgaz for the...

Russia takes over Syrian port of Tartus

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – Russia is expected to sign by the end of April a 49-year lease contract for the Syrian Mediterranean port...

Analysis – Iran to lease Syrian container port of Latakia

Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – From October 2019, Iran is to lease the Latakia container terminal of Latakia port, gaining a highly...

Syria announces Russian port service

Latakia, Syria (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – The Syrian Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade has announced the launch of the regular shipping line...

Lebanon’s Tripoli port looks to benefit from any Syria rebuild

Tripoli, Lebanon (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – The port of Tripoli on the Lebanese Mediterranean coast is taking active steps to develop its potential...

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