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\n \n\u00a9 Tomislav \/ Adobe Stock\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Turkey’s Yilport Holding announced it has taken over operations at Port of \u0160ibenik in Croatia as part of parent company Yildrim Group\u2019s acquisition of Petrokemija d.d., Croatia’s largest fertilizer plant.<\/p>\n The Port of \u0160ibenik, which used to operate as the country’s main fertilizer handling port, also handles wood products and aluminum, among other cargoes.<\/p>\n Yilport said it aims to turn the port into a multipurpose terminal offering diversified services, with plans to install an additional mobile harbor crane, increase storage capacity and dredge from -10 meters to -13 meters draft to allow access for larger vessels up to Panamax size. Yilport said it will install the third mobile harbor crane after container operations start at the terminal.<\/p>\n A second phase of the proposed business plan includes startup investments for Ro-Ro and liquid cargo services, part of a wider three-phase \u20ac50 million investment strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n The Port of \u0160ibenik is located 350 kilometers to Zagreb, and 3 kilometers away from the highway connecting Zagreb to the Adriatic Sea. The terminal has direct railway connection to Zagreb. The port currently serves Croatian and Bosnian bulk cargo and general cargo customers by rail and road network connections.<\/p>\n The port currently has three berths at -10 meters quay depth, and handles general cargo ships up to 50,000 tons. The port offers warehouses with conveyor systems, and handles 2,000 TEU container vessels. Under YILPORT\u2019s management, the Port of \u0160ibenik will diversify the overall service portfolio with its strategic location, connecting to other ports in the Mediterranean region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 23, 2023 \u00a9 Tomislav \/ Adobe Stock Turkey’s Yilport Holding announced it has taken over operations at Port of \u0160ibenik in Croatia as part of parent company Yildrim Group\u2019s acquisition of Petrokemija d.d., Croatia’s largest fertilizer plant. The Port of \u0160ibenik, which used to operate as the country’s main fertilizer handling port, also handles …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/32809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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