The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) group, world leader of the container shipping sector and also active in the port terminal, logistics, air transport, of cruises and ferries, has signed a Strategic cooperation with Azerbaijani oil company State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) which provides for joint investments in SOCAR Terminal, the Turkish container port Petkim, which is 70% owned by SOCAR and 30% by Goldman Sachs ( of 22 July and 22 December 2014).

The agreement provides that Terminal Investment Limited (TiL), the terminal company of the MSC group, become a shareholder of the SOCAR Terminal, the company that manages a quay of 700 linear meters with a depth of the seabed of -16 meters and an area of 420 thousand square meters, of which 30 thousand for the storage of container. The terminal has a traffic capacity containerized equal to 1.5 million TEUs per year.