{"id":13121,"date":"2025-07-14T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2025-07-14T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:37:14","slug":"syria-s-new-rulers-hand-operatorship-of-port-of-tartus-to-dp-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=13121","title":{"rendered":"Syria&#8217;s New Rulers Hand Operatorship of Port of Tartus to DP World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Syria&#8217;s New Rulers Hand Operatorship of Port of Tartus to DP World<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/syria-s-new-government-cancels-russian-port-lease-at-tartus\">booting out<\/a> the previous Russian operator of the port of Tartus, the newly-installed government of Syria has handed its operation to blue-chip\u00a0ports concessionaire DP World. The announcement follows just five days after the U.S. formally lifted its longstanding Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation on Syria&#8217;s current rulers, the former jihadist militia Hay\u2019at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), also known as al-Nusrah Front.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new concession agreement between Syria&#8217;s ports authority and DP world will bring in $800 million in investment in the Soviet-era facility&#8217;s infrastructure. The country&#8217;s decade-long civil war and stringent Western sanctions prevented any major revamps under the previous operator, and the fresh support will help modernize the port.\u00a0According to DP World, it will become a regional trade hub connecting Europe, the Mideast and North Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deal with DP World is a new high point for Syria&#8217;s post-revolution economic revival. In early December, the U.S.-designated terror group Hay&#8217;at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, along with Assad&#8217;s Russian and Iranian backers. Under Assad, Russia had secured a 49-year operating lease at Tartus for Stroytransgaz, an oil and gas construction company based in Moscow; HTS canceled that contract in January 2025, and curtailed the Russian Navy&#8217;s port access as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Al-Sharaa, who led HTS to victory over al-Assad last year, was present at the signing ceremony with DP World. Al-Sharaa had previously met in person with President Donald Trump to press the case for normalized relations with Syria; the lifting of the FTO designation was supported by the government of the UAE, which owns DP World.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/syria-s-new-rulers-hand-operatorship-of-port-of-tartus-to-dp-world\">Go to maritime executive<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria&#8217;s New Rulers Hand Operatorship of Port of Tartus to DP World \u00a0 After booting out the previous Russian operator of the port of Tartus, the newly-installed government of Syria has handed its operation to blue-chip\u00a0ports concessionaire DP World. The announcement follows just five days after the U.S. formally lifted its longstanding Foreign Terrorist Organization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-13121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-executive","tag-maritime-executive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}