News / First Turkey-Caspian Sea MCV shipping service to launch next month

PO Maritime MCV arriving at DP World Yarimca

DP World subsidiary P&O Maritime Logistics is set to launch the first shipping service connecting the Caspian Sea with global container supply chains.

Markets around the landlocked Caspian Sea have been served by road and rail, but P&O Maritime Logistics is set to deploy its Topaz Chu multi-carrying vessel (MCV) on a service connecting Turkey’s deepwater Yarimca port, near Istanbul, with the Kazakh port of Aktau and the Turkmen port of Turkmenbashi, via Russia’s inland waterways.

“MCV-type vessels are ideally suited to navigate ...