Port of Haydarpaşa
Port of Haydarpaşa | |
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Location | |
Country | Turkey |
Location | Haydarpaşa, Istanbul |
Coordinates | 41°00′12″N 29°00′50″E / 41.00333°N 29.01389°E |
UN/LOCODE | TRHAY[1] |
Details | |
Opened | 1899 |
Operated by | Turkish State Railways |
No. of berths | 21 |
No. of piers | 2 |
Port operations director | Musa Sırt[2] |
Container | 1,200 vessels/year at 5 terminals |
Ro-ro and ro-pax | 360 vessels/year |
General cargo | 1,134 cargo ships/year |
Statistics | |
Website http://www.tcdd.gov.tr/home/detail/?id=273 |
The Port of Haydarpaşa, also known as the Port of Haidar Pasha (
It is the largest port in Istanbul
History
The
On February 5, 1953, an extension for the Port of Haydarpaşa was started. The first part was completed in 1954 and the remainder in 1967.[7]
Port facilities
The Port has 21
Sea crafts of the port comprise 3
Container terminal
Total
The space for container terminal is nearly 100.000 m2 with a holding capacity of 15,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).[9] The annual handling capacity of the Port is 750,000 TEU. A container freight station of 3,600 m2 is available behind the container quay. In addition to the open storage area of 313,000 m2 and covered area of 21,000 m2, there exists a container land terminal outside the port in Göztepe for stacking the empty containers. It covers an area of 55,000 m2 with a holding capacity of 52,800 TEUTEU.[10]
Container loading and unloading, and custom clearance are made in the terminal at the port.
Ro-ro terminal
The ro-ro terminal can accommodate 360 vessels per year, and handle 410,000 tons of cargo, 65,000 trucks and 60,000 cars a year. There is a bi-weekly
General cargo handling equipment
At the port, 1,134 general cargo ships can be serviced a year. The floating crafts comprise one
Bulk handling facilities
Two berths serve the dry bulk traffic of up to 79 vessels a year. A
Rail ferry terminal
The
Towage is not necessary for vessels up to 1500
Future project
The port and its surroundings have been the subject of plans for redevelopment since around 2006 but in 2022 it was still operating as a city-centre container port.
See also
- Baghdad Railway
- Haydarpaşa Terminal
- Marmaray
References
- ^ "UNLOCODE (TR) - TURKEY". service.unece.org. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "TCDD Teşkilat Yapısı-Liman İşletme Müdürlüğü" (in Turkish). TCDD. Retrieved 2010-08-12.
- ^ "Port of Istanbul". World Port Source. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ^ a b "Ports of Turkey - Port of Haydarpaşa". Cerrahoğulları Shipping. Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ^ Baysal, M. Emin; Mehmet Uygur; Bilal Toklu (2004). "A Study of the Relative Efficiency of TCDD Ports, using Data Envelopment Analysis" (PDF). J. Fac. Eng. Arch. Gazi Univ. (in Turkish). 19 (4): 437–442. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2007.
- ^ "The Port of Istanbul – Haydarpaşa Port in Turkey | ShipHub". 2020-08-18. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
- ^ TCDD Haydarpaşa Limanı (in Turkish)
- ^ Yenidünya, Zafer (2006-06-12). "(TUR-C8.32) - TCDD Limanları - Haydarpaşa Limanı". Wow Turkey (in Turkish).
- ^ http://opolat.pau.edu.tr/docs/Performance%20Evaluation%20of%20Container%20Terminal%20Operations.PDF [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Haydarpaşa Port". Turkish State Railways.
- ^ "Haydarpasa port". atlasshipsupply.com. Retrieved 11 March 2019.