Merchant Fleet, Cargo Transportation, Port Infrastructure and the Naval Balance in the Caspian Sea

The rapid decline in the Caspian Sea’s water level is forcing Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Iran to deepen port approach channels, restrict vessel loads and reconsider port development plans, turning an environmental problem into...

Kazakhstan’s Kuryk port has completed the modernisation of two lifting transition bridges at its railway ferry complex, cutting the handling time for railway ferries from 18 to 12 hours and for vehicle ferries from 10 to six hours. Railway ferry...

BAKU, July 26 — The Caspian Sea, long regarded as a body of water insulated from global conflicts, is gradually becoming an extension of two theatres of war at once: Russia’s war against Ukraine and the war waged by the United States and Israel...

The Caspian Sea has entered a period of accelerated shallowing, the consequences of which are already affecting ports, oil terminals, fisheries, and coastal ecosystems. If the current trend continues, the problem will no longer be exclusively...