Products of the oil and gas industry, which are in great demand on the world market, are exported through the polypropylene terminal of the Turkmenbashi International Seaport, located on the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea.
About 749.9 tons of high-quality coke products were exported to Turkey through the polypropylene terminal by the Oguzabat Economic Society on the order of the Turkish company Bestway.
Another 1,350 tons of polypropylene products were exported to the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation by order of the Kazakh company Korsintez.
The total area of the polypropylene terminal with a capacity of 120,000 tons per year is 62,000 square meters. All terminal premises are equipped in such a way as to avoid damage to polypropylene cargo due to weather conditions.
In the terminal, port cranes on steel rails with a lifting capacity of 64 tons and a turning angle of 17 meters are simultaneously loading and unloading three ships with a displacement of 5,000 tons.
It should be noted that in Turkmenistan, polypropylene is produced at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries, as well as at the gas chemical complex in Kiyanly, which was built by the Korean companies Hyundai Engineering Go. Ltd” and “LG International Corp”, as well as the Japanese company “Toyo Engineering Corp” on the basis of an agreement with the State Concern “Turkmengas” and put into operation in October 2018.