Turkmenistan intends to complete the construction of Turkmenbashy international port on the Caspian coast at the end of 2017. The project cost is USD 1.5 billion and involves the construction of ferry, passenger and container terminals. The complex will include general cargo, bulk cargo and polypropylene terminals as well as shipbuilding and repair yards. The road with elevated intersections and railways will be also laid.
The annual throughput capacity of new port will be 17 – 18 million tons of cargoes and, together with existing port, this capacity is estimated at 25 – 26 million tons.
The container terminal has average year capacity of 400 thousand TEUs. Multimodal logistic park will provide the complex of services for storage and combined processing of container cargoes, delivered by air, road and railways, as well as loading to sea transport and vice versa.
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