Tartous Port Receives the Largest Palm Oil Shipment
11 Jun 2025, 19:26 GMT+10
Tartous, SANA - A ship carrying 40,000 tons of palm oil has arrived at Tartous Port as the largest shipment of its kind to arrive at this port since the fall of the former regime.
Mazen Alloush, Director of Public Relations at the General Authority for Land and Sea Ports, said in a statement that "the ship was carrying a shipment of 40,000 tons of crude palm oil, 23,000 tons of which were allocated for the Syrian Market, and were unloaded at the Port of Tartous within a record time."
The ship, which arrived from Malaysia and Indonesia, continued its journey to the port of Izmit, Turkey, to unload the remaining 13,000 tons, he clarified.
Alloush added that since the reactivation of the Port, it has received hundreds of commercial vessels carrying various cargoes, including foodstuffs, industrial raw materials, and production supplies.
"This reflects the port's recovery and the gradual restoration of its capacity to support national commercial and economic activity," Alloush added.
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