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Turkmenbashi

Turkmenbashi is a port-city in Balkan Province in Turkmenistan, on the Türkmenbaşy Gulf of the Caspian Sea’s Eastern coast. It is an important transshipment centre and terminus of the Central Asian Railway, and it has a rail-ferry link to Baku, Azerbaijan. An oil refinery and a petrochemical industry in the city are linked by pipelines to oil and gas fields. It is a port on the Lapis Lazuli trade corridor.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev seeks investment during China visit

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is in China and has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, ahead of...

Analysis – Anaklia new port: China probably wants it, Russia hates it, U.S. navy might use it, Georgia would benefit from it enormously

Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) April 21, 2019 – The project for the future biggest deep sea port in the Black Sea, Anaklia, has reportedly secured financing...

Analysis – Anaklia: The long shadows of Russia and China, money laundering, private or with state guarantees, personal feud between the rich

Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) April 2, 2019 – Anaklia Deep Sea Port, the Georgia Black Sea construction project, is not progressing and the reasons...

Georgian prime minister challenges Anaklia port critics

Anaklia, Georgia (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – At a press briefing on March 8, Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze called the Anaklia Deep Sea...

International North-South Transport Corridor set to expand capacity

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – At a meeting of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) coordination council in Tehran,...

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, Turkmenistan to promote Black Sea-Caspian Sea multimodal corridor

Bucharest, Romania (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – The foreign ministers of Romania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkmenistan have signed a declaration for...

Azerbaijan’s Baku port handles first cargo transit of “Lapis Lazuli” route

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Azerbaijan’s Baku port handled the first cargo transit operation on the international route...

Turkmenbashi port in Turkmenistan – another megalomaniac project or a new Silk Road winner

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) November 9, 2018 – In a rare acknowledgment of problems with one of his ambitious billion dollar projects, last...

Port of Baku transships 2 million tons of cargo for first half of 2018

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) August 12, 2018 – Baku International Sea Trade Port CJSC has reported that in the first half of 2018 the volume of cargo...

President takes part in the opening ceremony of Turkmenbashi International Seaport

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) May 7, 2018 – President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has attended the opening of the new Turkmenbashi...

Volume of cargo transported through Baku port in 2017 was 4.4 million tons

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – The volume of cargo transported through the Baku International Sea Trade Port in 2017 amounted to 4.4...

Azerbaijan and Russia to cooperate in cruise shipping

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Chairman of Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company (ACSC) Rauf Veliyev and Konstantin Anisimov, the General...

Turkmen parliament ratifies the agreement on “Lapis Lazuli” transport corridor

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – The Turkmen parliament has ratified the agreement on “Lapis Lazuli” transport corridor...

Batumi and Poti ports join Lapis Lazuli transit corridor

Batumi, Georgia (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – Georgia is to join the Lapis Lazuli Corridor, a transport route connecting Europe and Asia by road,...

Turkmenistan’s new port to open new trade opportunities

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – The Turkmen government is constructing a new Caspian Sea port at Turkmenbasho nd recently...

Turkmenistan looks at European experience for Turkmenbashi Seaport

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) April 1, 2017 – The Turkmen State Customs Service has said that representatives have visited ports in Europe to...

Baku International Sea Trade Port increases cargo trade in 2016

Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) January 9, 2016 – In 2016 Baku International Sea Trade Port unloaded 4.5 million tons of cargo, up by 47% compared to...

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