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According to the results of January-May 2025, the cargo turnover of Turkish ports increased by 2% compared to the same period last year and reached 230 million tons. In May, the figure increased by 4.7%, amounting to 48.16 million tons. The leaders in terms of the volume of handled cargo were the ports of Aliaga (7.83 million tons), Kocaeli (7.41 million tons), Iskenderun (6.25 million tons), Tekirdag, Ceyhan, Mersin and Ambarli. The ten largest ports accounted for 83.9% of the total monthly volume.

In the first five months of 2025, 455.9 million tons of cargo were transported in Kazakhstan by all modes of transport, which is 11.9% more than in the same period last year. Rail transport accounted for the largest share – 185.5 million tons (+14.1%), freight turnover amounted to 138.8 billion ton-kilometers (+9.3%). The growth is especially noticeable in the maritime industry: the volume of transportation increased by 43.9%, reaching 1.6 million tons, and freight turnover increased to 747.9 million ton-kilometers (+14.7%).

In the first five months of 2025, 78 thousand TEU containers were handled in the seaports of Ukraine, almost twice as much as in the same period of 2024. This was reported by Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development Andriy Kashuba, emphasizing the gradual restoration of the container direction.

A.P. Moller – Maersk has unveiled the first vessel of the new Berlin Mærsk class of container ships, equipped with a dual-fuel methanol plant. The ceremony took place on June 18 at the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. This is the 14th vessel with an environmentally friendly drive type in the Maersk fleet, and five more similar ones will join it in the near future.