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Russia and Azerbaijan create committee on Caspian shallowing
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) October 6, 2024 – “Want to kill an idea? Form a committee”. Caspian Sea shallowing has led to reduced load of ships and...
Key role for Trans-Caspian segment of TITR
Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 26, 2024 – In parallel with the development of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, Middle...
Kazakhstan’s ports handled 4.5 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-Aug’24
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 26, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports of Aktau and Kuryk handled 4.5 million tonnes of cargo in the...
Finally, a JV is created for the container hub in Aktau port
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 22, 2024 – KTZ Express, Port Lianyungang and Aktau Sea Trade Port finally announced the creation of a joint...
Germany’s Rhenus Group signs agreement with Port of Aktau
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – The Rhenus Group has signed a declaration of intent with Aktau Sea Commercial Port JSC to develop...
Rhenus to set up joint venture with Uzbek Railways
Samarkand, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 18, 2024 – As part of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s trip to Central Asia, delegation member Tobias...
Russia’s Quark fund invests in Arctic Vitino port along NSR
Beloye More, Russia (Ports Europe) September 17, 2024 – Russia’s closed-end mutual investment fund Quark became a 50% co-owner of Nord Star, the...
200th container train from China arrives in Aktau port
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 16, 2024 – The 200th container train so far in 2024 from China has arrived at Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port...
Kazakh ports handled 1.9 mln tonnes of cargo in Jan-Aug’24 – really?
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 16, 2024 – Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports handled 1.9 million tonnes of cargo in the first eight months of the...
Belarus exported 110% more cargo via Russian ports in Jan-Aug’24
Minsk, Belarus (Ports Europe) September 13, 2024 – In the first eight months of 2024, Belarus exported 110% more cargo, through 14 Russian ports, than in...
First China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan freight train
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 12, 2024 – The first China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan freight train departed from Wuxi, Jiangsu province near...
Turkmenistan and Afghanistan to build railway and dry port
Kabul, Afghanistan (Ports Europe) September 10, 2024 – Landlocked Afghanistan and Turkmenistan signed bilateral agreements for improving mutual railway...
Landlocked Uzbekistan increasing cargo transport via Azerbaijan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 10, 2024 – Cargo transportation between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan will grow 20-30% in 2024, according to...
Nafith signs MOU with Port of Kuryk, Kazakhstan
Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) September 4, 2024 – The Nafith International Group of Jordan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the...
Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan to invest $150 mln in transport
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) September 4, 2024 – Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan are developing measures worth some $150 million to expand cooperation...
Putin alarmed by shrinking Caspian Sea, but no way to prevent it
Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 – After decades of ignoring the shallowing of the Caspian Sea, Russia has suddenly started looking for...
New JV to manage Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line in Georgia
Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) August 27, 2024 – Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) and Georgia’s Marabda-Kartsakhi Railway announced on August 23 the creation...
FESCO Novorossiysk Shuttle doubles capacity
Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 23, 2024 – The FESCO Transport Group has doubled the frequency of regular FESCO Novorossiysk Shuttle (FNS)...
Landlocked Kyrgyzstan wants to invest in Iran’s Shahid Rajaei port
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Ports Europe) August 21, 2024 – The landlocked Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan is looking for ways to invest in infrastructure...
Vessel traffic systems in Kazakh Caspian ports in 2025
Aktau, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) August 19, 2024 – Commissioning of the vessel traffic services system (VTS) in Kazakhstan’s main Caspian Sea port of...