Turkish Company Moves Super-Heavy Cargo by Waterways from Black Sea to Turkmenistan

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Jan. 1 – In 2025, a Turkish company, Suvari Shipping, sent five ships carrying super-heavy and oversized cargo for state projects in Turkmenistan from the Black Sea via waterways including the Sea of Azov, the Volga-Don Canal, and the Caspian to the port of Turkmenbashi.

            The Turkish company handled all aspects of this project from loading to unloading, including acting as shipping agent, vesse escort, port operations and document processing (business.com.tm/ru/post/14754/suvari-shipping-dostavila-promyshlennoe-tyazhelovesnoe-oborudovanie-v-port-turkmenbashi and casp-geo.ru/cherez-volgo-donskoj-kanal-v-kaspijskij-port-turkmenbashi/).

            This success by a Turkish company calls attention to the fact that Moscow lacks the ships and skills it would need to duplicate what Suvari has done as well as to the importance of the Volga-Don Canal, which has been silting up and which pressure for expanding dredging or even the replacement of that water link is likely to grow.

            For discussions of these issues, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/04/russia-has-little-hope-of-building-100.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/falling-water-levels-forcing-moscow-to.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2021/04/moscows-use-of-caspian-flotilla-against.html.