Turkmenbashi (TMKRW)

Turkmenbashi port is a hub port for the Caspian Sea, transhipping many cargoes to the countries bordering the sea area. The modern port has an oil refinery to handle oil and oil products, also handling industrial and building equipment, textiles and frequent passenger and train ferry connections to other ports on the Caspian sea and the Trans Caspian Railway. The port handles iron ore, cement, coal, cereal, sugar, salt, steel, iron, wood materials, vehicles, equipment, heavy cargo, container, polyethene and polypropylene. After five years of construction, the new port area, known as Turkmenbashi International Seaport, is now fully opened at a cost of $1.5 billion. Facilities includes a ferry and passenger terminal and new container terminal, general cargo port, bulk cargo port and a ship building and repair facility. The existing Ro-Ro ferry berths have been expanded up and updated, along with facilities at the Polypropylene Terminal. The port is now the biggest seaport on the Caspian Sea.

Turkmenbashi (or Krasnovodsk) is located on the E coast of the Caspian Sea.

LOA 154.8m, beam 17.5m, draught 5.1m, 9,331DWT.

Approx 15,000,000t of cargo and 2,500 vessels handled annually.

BA 4001. Admiralty pilot NP286(3).

Turkmenbashi has a desert climate, with average rainfall of 125mm.