Port Overview 

Samsun port is Turkey's largest port in the Black Sea region. It is the only port on the Black Sea with a railway connection. It has a large hinterland. It is the stopping point of cargo coming from and to Anatolia. With its railroad and highway connections, Samsun includes the cities of Sinop, Corum, Amasya, Ordu, Sivas, Erzincan, Yozgat, Tokat, Kastamonu, Ankara, Kirsehir, Kayseri, Nigde, Konya, and Malatya in its hinterland.  

The marine hinterland of Samsun Port includes Batumi, Poti, and Sokhumi ports of Georgia; Sochi, Tuapse, Novorossiysk, Azov in Sea of Azov, Taganrog, Zhdanov, Yalta, Berdyansk, Henichesk ports of Russia; Mis.Kiz-Ogul, Feodosiya, Yalta, Todor, Sevastopol, Yevpatoriyaports in Crimea; Mykolaiv, Odessa, Ilyichevsk ports in Ukraine; Constanta port in Romania and Varna port in Bulgaria. 

Port website: https://www.samsunport.com.tr/en  

Key port information may also be found at: https://www.maritime-database.com/port.php?pid=2865  

Port Picture 

Description and Contacts of Key Companies 

Samsun International Port Management Inc. (Samsunport Samsun Uluslararası Liman İşletmeciliği A.Ş.) is managing and operating all the activities in Samsun Port.  

For more information on port contacts, please see the following link: 4.4 Port and Waterways Companies Contact List  

Port Performance 

Seasonal Constraints 

Discharge Rates and Terminal Handling Charges 

For information on port rates and charges, please see the following link: https://www.samsunport.com.tr/en/online-services/tariffs  

Berthing Specifications 

General Cargo Handling Berths 

Port Handling Equipment 

The port equipment is managed privately.  

Container Facilities 

Customs Guidance 

https://www.trade.gov.tr/customs-formalities  

For more information on customs in Türkiye, please see the following link: 1.3 Customs Information  

Terminal Information 

MULTIPURPOSE TERMINAL 

Samsunport has a Ronguzzi branded bagged goods loading crane, with a loading capacity of 2,000 tons/day. In addition to this, the capacity of loading/unloading can be reached to 10,000 tons/day for big bags. 

Samsunport provides services for Ro-Ro vessels and Car Carriers with an extensive vehicle park, inspection station, and 7 weighbridges. The passenger Exit Gate of Samsunport is very close to the city centre and there are shuttle services in front of the Passenger Exit Gate. 

GRAIN AND BULK HANDLING 

Dry Bulk 

Samsunport has 14 electrical dock cranes that can handle any load from 5 tons to 35 tons and 10 mobile cranes with handling capacity from 10 tons to 124 tons. The mobile cranes consist of Sennebogen 835 – 840 – 870, Fantuzzi MHC 40 – MHC 20, Liebherr LHM 400 – 420, and Reggianne MHC 200 brands.  

Samsunport has steel grain silos of 60.000 tons capacity and warehouses of 50.000 m2 space in port allowing the storage of 200.000 tons of dry bulk. The Port industrial pier with 400 m length and 12 m depth owns 5 land cranes with 1 unit of 5 tons, 3 units of 10 tons, 1 unit of 35 tons capacity. The 35 tons capacity crane provides 15.000 tons/day coal discharge service by means of its remote-controlled grab of 21 m3 volume preventing the rising of the coal dust with the help of special water jet bunkers. 

Liquid Bulk 

Liquid bulk cargo is loaded onto ships and discharged from them with a mobile pipeline loading-discharging wharf system 

 MAIN STORAGE TERMINAL 

Samsunport includes 200,000 SQM open area and 50,000 SQM warehouses suitable to handle (storage and reloading) up to 3 million tons of cargo.  

Stevedoring 

Samsunport has the ability to handle containerized and general cargo shipments such as palleted goods, crates, metal sheets, steel rolls, pipe, machinery, block stone, block marble, bales, roll papers, and roll cables. with keeping goods in Custom Bonded Warehouse temporary storage status and to dispatch them again by providing terminal services. 

Samsunport also provides loading/unloading services to railway cars through our railway line existing in the Industrial Pier. There are 2 train ferry ramps at the industrial pier suitable for 1520-1435 mm track gauges, and a bogie change station with 1520 mm gauge.  

Hinterland Information 

Containers, bulk and breakbulk cargo are being transported outbound mainly by Road (Inland transportation) to other ports or to the final consignee, however, part of the cargo is being moved by railway.   

Port Security