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Tartus

Tartus is a city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. It is the second largest port city in Syria.

Syria wins if the project to activate oil pipeline to Iraq materialises

Baniyas, Syria (Ports Europe) August 6, 2023 – Iraq is ready to discuss with Syria the development of the damaged and currently defunct oil export...

Russia pushes again for opening long-delayed industrial zones in Egypt

Suez, Egypt (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 – Sanctions-hit Moscow is desperately trying to create two long-delayed Russian industrial zones (RIZ) with a...

Oboronlogistics transports Russian cargo to Syria

Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) November 16, 2022 – State-owned Oboronlogistics LLC has been transporting Russian cargo to Syria, and also bringing...

Russia delivers cargo to Syrian port of Tartus

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 31, 2022 – Russia has delivered cargo from the port of Novorossiysk to the Syrian port of Tartus. The cargo...

Russia’s government to save sanctions hit ports in occupied Crimea with Syrian cargo

Feodosia, Crimea, Ukraine (Ports Europe) January 25, 2022 – Severely hit by the sanctions imposed on Ukraine’s Crimea after its annexation by Russia in...

Iran proposes Hamidiyeh port as Syrian free trade zone

Vienna, Austria (PortSEurope) July 23, 2020 – Economic Deputy of the secretariat of the Supreme Council of Iran’s Free Trade, Industrial and...

Workers in Syria’s Tartus protest again Russia’s company management of the port

Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) July 9, 2020 – Port workers in Tartus have again complained about their Russian employer irregular and lower than the agreed...

Analysis – Russia uses Libya’s partition to gain control of its Mediterranean ports

Tripoli, Libya (Ports Europe) May 4, 2020 – The year-long siege of Tripoli, seat of Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), by the...

Analysis – Is Alexandroupolis port the new trump card in the Trump administration’s Mediterranean Great Game?

Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) March 10, 2020 – On March 7, 2020, U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt and Deputy Assistant Secretary at U.S....

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 – After Syria’s Tartus port, Russia eyes Libya’s Mediterranean port of Tobruk

Tobruk, Libya (Ports Europe) April 28, 2019 – The advance of the army of general Khalifa Belqasim Haftar towards Tripoli raises again the issue of Russia’s...

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...

In the midst of sanctions, Sevastopol port seeks to boost traffic through transshipment to Syria

Sevastopol, Crimea (Ports Europe) January 28, 2019 – Severely hit by the sanctions imposed to Crimea after its annexation by Russia in 2014, Sevastopol...

Sevastopol port to sign trade agreement with Syria’s Tartus harbour

Sevastopol, Crimea (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – A delegation from the Crimea’s port of Sevastopol will visit the Syrian harbour of...

Russia’s Stroytransgaz cooperates in expansion of Syria’s Tartus port

Tartus, Syria (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – Syria’s Transport Ministry is cooperating with Russian company Stroytransgaz in a project to expand...

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