Port of Aliağa

Aliağa is not a single port but a cluster of industrial terminals, from refinery jetties to container terminals, LNG terminals and ship recycling yards. This page covers the terminals, the anchorages and how to follow this traffic with VesselCall.

Port profile: location, terminals and cargo

Aliağa lies in the Aliağa district of Izmir province, on the southeastern shore of the Çandarlı Gulf, with many of its terminals around the Nemrut Bay. The area is overseen by the Aliağa regional harbour master, whose facility list includes:

• Refining and petrochemicals: the Tüpraş and STAR refineries and Petkim port
• Containers and general cargo: SOCAR Aliağa Terminal (containers, project cargo, CFS) and the Nemport container terminal
• Iron and steel: Habaş Nemrut port, İDÇ port and Egeçelik’s port company
• Energy: the Ege Gaz and Etki Liman FSRU LNG terminals, the Milangaz Nemrut platform and fuel storage facilities
• Other industry: the Ege Gübre and Batıçim Batıliman facilities

Aliağa also has ship recycling yards, where end-of-life ships make their last voyage.

Vessel traffic and anchorages

Aliağa’s traffic is tanker-heavy: crude, product and chemical tankers plus LNG and LPG carriers. Bulk carriers serving the steel plants, container ships and ships arriving for recycling complete the mix. According to Türkiye’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, 6,224 vessels called in the Aliağa harbour master’s area in 2025. The same year, the Aliağa regional harbour master handled 89.5 million tons of cargo, the most of any harbour master in Türkiye.

The Aliağa section of Türkiye’s Ports Regulation (Limanlar Yönetmeliği) defines eight anchorages. We calculated the distances below from the official coordinates, measured from a central point off the Nemrut Bay:

The five pilot boarding points lie about 2-5 nm from the center.

Which service companies find work in Aliağa?

• Bunker and lubricant suppliers: Tankers, LNG carriers and bulk carriers calling at the cluster form a large target group for fuel and lubricant suppliers. See bunker and lubricants.
• Surveyors: Quantity and quality surveys on tankers, draft surveys for dry bulk, and damage surveys for containers and project cargo. See marine surveyors.
• Ship chandlers: Tankers waiting at anchor and regular orders from container ships and bulk carriers.
• Technical service and spare parts: Tankers with short stays at refinery and petrochemical jetties, and ships waiting at anchor.
• Ship agents: Many terminals and ship types in one area.

How VesselCall monitors Aliağa

In Outreach, you select Aliağa and set a range (radius). We suggest 12 nautical miles: that circle covers every facility along the coast from the Nemrut Bay to the Tüpraş jetties, the five pilot boarding points and all eight anchorages, the farthest of which is about 8 nm out. Izmir Alsancak lies about 23 nm to the south, so the two ports do not overlap, and a ship that calls at both within 7 days does not get a second e-mail.

VesselCall detects tankers, cargo ships and passenger ships inside the range and filters out tugs, pilot boats, fishing boats and yachts by default. Using the vessel’s IMO number, it identifies the ship manager or commercial manager, then the ISM manager, then the registered owner, and sends your introduction e-mail from your own company domain, in the recipient’s language.

The Data package records port calls at Aliağa independently of e-mail sending: arrival, departure, length of stay, and whether the ship waited at anchor or at berth. Period reports split traffic into crude, product and chemical tankers, LPG/LNG carriers, container ships and bulk carriers, with flags and the most frequent ship managers, and you can export the list to CSV or Excel. Records build up from the day monitoring starts.