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.

Port reception facility is serving with a marine Fleet consists of 5 licensed slop barges and a land Fleet consists of licensed 12 trucks and 14 tanker trailers.

Port is capable also to receive the waste via the expipe installed on jetty.

After reception of ship-generated waste into port reception facility, they are processed with the steps in the order of dewatering, decantation, separation and evaporation.

Waste oil and waste-solvent obtained as the outputs, are sent to licenced recycling and recovering facilities in domestic market.

Suring the all stages, all the treatment processes are kept under control in the digital medium in real time thanks to the SCADA system.

Following the completion of waste treatment of processes, the waste products produced are transferred to the last ring of the energy transformation, that is, to the relevant industrial operations with a commissioning work. The waste that controls in the terms of cubic meters and tonnage have been performed are safely dispatched to the plants they will be used in by a licensed land fleet with GPS monitoring system, and which is also under control with an online tracing network applied by government.