In January-June 2007 the Aktau International Commercial Sea Port handled 5 493.4 thousand tons of general and bulk-oil cargo, reports Interfax.

In January-May of the current year Aktau International Commercial Sea Port handled 4.8 mn tons of cargo.

In the next future, it will be possible to ship about 500 thousand tons of grain via the international sea port Aqtau, reports Kazakhstan Today quoting Akhmedtjan Esimov, Kazakhstan's minister of agriculture. "This year we are completing the project of the grain terminal reconstruction in the sea port Aqtau.

February 1 the new grain terminal at Baku is to become operable.

The only Kazah port of Aktau increased the oil turnover in 2006 by 13,6% up to 8,396 mln.

On Ocotber 3 2006 in Uralsk Igor Levitin, RF Transport Minister and Serik Akhmetov, Minister of Transport and communications of Kazakhstan signed the agreement to open the international direct rail and ferry service via the ports of the Astrakhan basin - Makhachkala (Russia) - Aktau (Kazakhstan).

On 27 September 2006 the first container train from China is to arrive at Novorossiysk.

On August 10 after the seatrials Vyborg Shipyard delivered the 12 th.tons dwt oil tanker "Aktau" to Kazmortransflot. The technical draft was made by Vympel construction bureau.

On August 10 after the seatrials Vyborg Shipyard delivers the oil tanker "Aktau" to Raiffaisen Leasing Kazakhstan. The technical draft was made by Vympel construction bureau.

The Ministry of Power Engineering and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan works on the technical-economical substantiation concerning the construction of the new port which will transport Kazakhstan's oil along BTC, reports the Azeri information agency Turan quoting Bolat Akchulakov, Representative of the Ministry of Power Engineering and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan. It is likely that the new port will be constructed on Kazakhstan's own needs.

As agent of the ferry service of the state-run international commercial port of Makhachkala (Russian Federation) M&M provides service in operating the new rail ferry between Makhachkala - Turkmenbashi (Turkmenistan) and Makhachkala - Aktau (Kazakhstan). Between 106 and 130 passages between Makhachkala - Turkmenbashi and Aktau are planned for the year 2006. Two new ferryboats are currently in operation, with two more scheduled to enter service later this year.

Rusmarin Forwarding Company, which operates at the Severnaya Verft JSC on the berth No 13, invited advisors form the Portia Management Services Ltd (Liverpool, Great Britain) to design the territories located at the Severnaya Verft and in the back zone at Turukhtannye Ostrova road near the First Container Terminal.

South Korea's military donated three artillery-equipped ships to Kazakhstan to protect the ex-Soviet republic's interests in the energy-rich Caspian Sea, the Kazakh government said Friday.

On April 27 Vyborg Shipyard launched the oil tanker "Aktau" to the order of the Raiffaisen Leasing Kazakhstan. The technical draft was made by Vympel construction bureau.

In 2005 Aktau Commercial Seaport reduced the net profit by 21.8% to $11.3 mn. The port's earnings made $35,6 mn against $34 mn in 2004 having increased by 34.4%.