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Taman

Taman is a seaport on the Taman Peninsula in area of Cape Zhelezniy Rog, in Temryuksky District of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is on the coast of the Black Sea and close to the Kerch Strait.

Taman ammonia terminal to replace a pipeline across Ukraine by end-2023

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) June 4, 2023 – Sanctions-hit Russia has failed in its comic attempt to reopen the Togliatti-Odesa (Ukrainian Black Sea port)...

Russian ports export record grain volumes – expect much more

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 30 – Grain exports via Russian ports is expected to reach 60 million tonnes in the 2023-2024 season and might continue to...

Russian ports experience coal backlog

Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) May 28, 2023 – The European Union’s ban on Russian coal imports and reduced demand from Turkey, has led to a huge...

Viterra gives away its Russian business to management

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) May 18, 2023 – Viterra Rus, the Russian division of the Netherlands registered grain trader giant Viterra, will continue to...

Russia’s strategic port of Taman operational after fuel depot fire

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) May 6, 2023 – The strategic Russian Black Sea port of Taman is operational again after the huge fire that erupted there in the...

Fire in fuel depot in Russia’s strategic port of Taman

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) May 3, 2023 – After the huge fire at a fuel depot in Russia’s strategic Black Sea port of Taman in the early morning of...

Russian fertilisers in limbo

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 1, 2023 – The production and export of Russian fertilisers is in limbo following the Western sanctions against the country....

Russia paves the ground for ammonia terminals in its ports

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) April 26, 2023 – Russian Ministry of Transport has amended the “Norms for the technological design of seaports”...

Moscow desperate for first ammonia transshipment complex in Taman

Taman, Russia (PortSEurope) March 22, 2023 – Under heavy pressure to speed-up the construction of Russia’s first ammonia and mineral fertilisers...

Russia claims increase in ports’ cargo handling in Jan-Feb’23 despite sanctions

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) March 20, 2023 – Russian seaports handled 140.3 million tonnes of cargo in January-February 2023, 2.6% more compared to the...

New terminals and berths in Novorossiysk port

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) February 17, 2023 – Novaya Pristan company (part of OZK Group) is preparing the project for new berths in Russia’s Black...

Taman Bulk Cargo Terminal ready to process 2,071 coal wagons daily

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) February 14, 2023 – Taman Bulk Cargo Terminal has confirmed it now has the capacity to process 2,071 coal wagons daily....

First stage of Russia’s first ammonia port in Taman to be ready by year-end

Taman, Russia (Ports Europe) February 9, 2023 – 9.6 hectares of agricultural land were converted into industrial, energy and transport land to be used for...

UPDATE: Russia claims its ports handled 841.5 million tonnes of cargo in 2022

Ports Europe previous article (January 6, 2022): Russia claims its ports handled 840 million tonnes of cargo in 2022 Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 14,...

Russia claims its ports handled 840 million tonnes of cargo in 2022

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) January 6, 2023 – About 840 million tonnes of cargo were transported via Russian se ports in 2022, according to RosmorRechFlot...

New locomotive maintenance facility to be build in Taman port

Taman, Russia (PortSEurope) December 27, 2022 – The project for new locomotive (train engine) maintenance facility in the dry cargo area of Taman port was...

Russia plans 2023 investment in ports of 145.4 billion rubles

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) December 22, 2022 – Russia plans investment of 145.4 billion rubles (€1.8 billion) in its ports in 2023. In 2022,...

EuroChem to build ammonia terminal in Russia by end-2023

Zug, Switzerland (PortSEurope) December 8, 2022 – Following the western sanctions that closed European Union ports to Russian cargo, Swiss registered...

Taman will be only Russian port exporting ammonia by end-2023 – UralChem asks Putin for access to Ukraine’s Odessa port

Taman, Russia (PortSEurope) November 23, 2022 – Taman will be by end-2023 the only Russian port that will be able to export ammonia. UralChem has asked...

Russia’s ports cargo handling statistics for first nine months of 2022

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) October 22, 2022 – Russia’s ports cargo handling decreased by 0.5% in January-September 2022, compared to the same period...

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