Çanakkale, with its lands in the Europe and Asia in the northwest of Turkey, unites the waters of the Aegean Sea with Sea of Marmara through its strait, which hosts thousands of ships every year. While the intense ship traffic of the Strait increases the importance of Çanakkale, the importance of the port greatly increases also as regards the human and nature in the surroundings.
The dangeraous cargo vessels passing through the Dardanelles Strait in total amounts to 150 millions tons each year. That is, each ship passing through the strait brings the risks they hold together with the commercial acquisitions.
Although the loads carried by the ships and the waste generated by their main engines and auxiliarry machineries poses a great risk for the environment when the number of the ships anually passing through Dardanelles Strait, this risk is eliminated with the processing and transforming of the waste in the port reception facility of Port of Çanakkale.
While main missions of the Port of Çanakkale is to process and transform the waste generated by ships or the residues of cargo they carry, to welcome the 15,000 foreign tourists viding the city each year with cruise vessels in addition to the loading and unloading services provided almost any type of ships. The port has an important place in the domestic and global economies, and produces an important cultural value in addition to its commercial contributions to the country.
While main missions of the Port of Çanakkale is to process and transform the waste generated by ships or the residues of cargo they carry, to welcome the 15,000 foreign tourists viding the city each year with cruise vessels in addition to the loading and unloading services provided almost any type of ships. The port has an important place in the domestic and global economies, and produces an important cultural value in addition to its commercial contributions to the country.
Port of Canakkale has the largest port reception facility of Turkey with a tank storage capacity of 15,000 cbm and which is a member of “EUROSHORE”, the international trade association of port reception facility providers in Europe and beyond.
