Turkmenbashi port (Port Code: TMTUR) is an international seaport located at the east coast of the Caspian Sea. As a primary passenger and cargo port, it is of geopolitically important in Eurasia. Being on a trading way Europe-Caucuses-Asia (TRACECA), it is capable to receive vessels throughout a year and to carry out cargo handling operations round the clock. The port is “a sea gate” connecting Central Asia and Europe with sea, road and rail ways and it performs the functions of the largest transit junction of the region. In 2000-2003, reconstruction of the port was carried out: old berths were reconstructed; new vessel berths as well as warehouses and a number of other objects were constructed. The port mainly handles organization of works on cargo unloading/loading, placement and storage of cargo at warehouses, and provides towing services for a safe entry/exit of the vessels calling to the port and other port operations.
The following equipment is available in the port: terminal for shipment of oil and oil products with the throughput capacity 9 million 200 thousand tons of cargo a year; ferry terminal with the throughput capacity 4 million tons of cargo a year; dry-cargo terminal equipped with 5 portal cranes and mobile crane with the carrying capacity of 500 tons and the throughput capacity 1 million 450 thousand of tons of cargo a year, covered warehouses with the area of 17000 sq.m. and ground storages with the area of 21000 sq.m. as well as Aladja port-point and Ekerem port-point.