Onur Göçmez, President of Arkas Holding Logistics Group, stated that the digitalization investments they have made at Shipeedy Logistics have helped exporters stay one step ahead of their global competitors.

Shipeedy Logistics, the maritime partial transportation company of Arkas Logistics, which makes pioneering investments in the logistics sector with the motto "The Power Behind Logistics", has further increased its growth with digitalization.

Shipeedy Logistics provides fast and safe partial sea freight transportation to 750 destinations in 150 countries. Thanks to its online platform, exporters and importers can get prices and request services 24/7. Shipeedy Logistics, which provides maritime partial logistics services all over the world with its wide, reliable service network and expert staff, offers fast and flexible transportation solutions to exporter and importer companies, especially SMEs, from door to door and from port to port via Shipeedy.com. Shipeedy Logistics also meets the needs of its customers from a single source with complementary services such as storage and insurance.

"WE FIND DIFFERENT LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS FOR PRODUCERS"

Stating that Turkey is a country that stands out with its location and production power, Onur Göçmez, President of Arkas Holding Logistics Group, said: "The logistics sector should be able to produce different solutions for exporters and importers according to their needs. One of these solutions is maritime partial transportation. Shipeedy Logistics, established as an Arkas Logistics Group company, offers an important service that Turkey needs in this context." 

Stating that they also contribute to exporters being one step ahead of their global competitors thanks to their digitalization investments, Göçmez said, "Our customers can get prices 24/7 for partial shipments to the USA, which can be opened to the world via Shipeedy com, and calculate transportation costs and track the whereabouts of the product online. Maritime partial transportation, which is one of the most suitable transportation types for Green Logistics, also contributes to the ecosystem of our world: By consolidating multiple customers and loads in a single container, both lower carbon emissions are achieved and the costs are advantageous as they are divided on the basis of the volume of the load."

OFFERS COST ADVANTAGE WITH CAMPAIGNS

Explaining that as Shipeedy Logistics, they continue to organize innovative campaigns that reduce the costs of their customers, Göçmez said. "Finally, we offered a 50 percent discount campaign on inland transportation service to our customers," he said.

Arkas Holding and its group companies continue to work to heal the wounds of the earthquake disaster and deliver them to those in need quickly.

The aid campaign that Arkas initiated with its group companies and volunteers from the first day of the earthquake continues to create more permanent solutions for earthquake victims in the medium term.

Arkas, which took action to heal the wounds of the earthquake disaster that caused heavy destruction in Kahramanmaraş, Hatay, Adıyaman, Gaziantep, Malatya, Osmaniye, Kilis, Adana, Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır, where approximately 13.5 million of our citizens live, and to support the re-establishment of a life, will consist of 1000 containers in total. started to work to establish “Container Villages” in different locations.

At the first stage, it is planned to complete the production and furnishing of 350 container houses, which will be built on two separate lands in Kahramanmaraş, where infrastructure arrangements and all permit procedures have been completed, and will be allocated to earthquake victims within two months. Arkas' Marport company undertook the construction of 200 container houses to be built in the first phase. Land surveys and feasibility studies are also continuing for the continuity of the project, which is called Arkas Life Centers. In the two-room container houses in the living centers in question, every detail is planned for the earthquake victims to live a comfortable life with all the interior furnishings, infrastructure, landscaping and social areas.

On the other hand;

Arkas Logistics, which started to transport aid materials prepared according to urgent and priority needs to the earthquake region with the coordination of AFAD from the first day, has so far shipped 79 truck aid materials and 16 truck life containers to the regions. While 100 tents were built and delivered to the regions, 2000 heaters were shipped to Iskenderun.

Taking action due to the congestion on the highway and to deliver more relief supplies at once, Arkas Logistics carried out the transport of 20 aid containers, consisting of 10 wagons, prepared according to the AFAD emergency needs list, from Derince to Iskenderun by rail, within the scope of TCDD cooperation.

Arkas Logistics; In cooperation with Arkpet, transporting 30 thousand liters of diesel oil from Derince to the Turkish Red Crescent in Hatay, transporting containers equipped with a 4-bed capacity, heated, generator cabin, air compressor, mobile electric, freight elevator to the earthquake zone, reefer with the feature of keeping the temperature constant It also continues to transport in different modes with its fast and solution-oriented approach according to the needs of the Earthquake Zone, such as hot food being sent from Istanbul to Gaziantep and Hatay with its containers.

In addition to delivering the needs to the region, kitchens were set up in two separate regions in Hatay with the support of Arkas Volunteers.

While Arkas Holding makes a great effort to deliver all support to earthquake victims in coordination with the crisis desk it has established, the kitchens established in two separate districts in Hatay, Arsuz and Defne, continue to provide and serve food for three thousand people three times a day.

In the mobile kitchen in Arsuz, with the cooperation of Hatay Arsuz Municipality and İzmir Cooks Association, three meals a day hot meal and soup are served 24 hours a day in Çadırkent (Next to Ayla Naci Uyar Anatolian High School).

Hot meals prepared in the kitchen established in Defne, where Kristal Oils also supplies products, are delivered to the surrounding villages by Arkas Volunteers with the vehicle support of Arkas Automotive.

We stand by our earthquake survivors living in the region

Arkas also works to meet the needs of earthquake survivors working in the region. All Arkas Human Resources managements contacted the employees working in these regions one by one and received information about the damage assessment and the status of their relatives. It continues its support efforts in this direction.

Arkas garages, warehouses and tow trucks in Mersin, Gaziantep and Iskenderun were opened for Arkas personnel and their families, making them social accommodation and accommodation areas. Three meals a day are regularly provided to Arkas employees and their relatives staying in these regions. Working on permanent solutions to accommodation needs.

In the following process; Arkas will continue to closely monitor the needs in disaster areas and work in coordination with relevant public institutions and organizations to meet these needs, so that the wounds of the region can be healed after the debris removal works and earthquake victims can participate in the flow of daily life.

Shipeedy, the online platform launched two years ago by Arkas Logistics, which makes pioneering investments in the logistics sector with the motto 'The Power Behind Logistics', with the goal of 'Digital speed transportation', is faster and easier for both exporting and importing companies in partial logistics service with its new interface. continues to be the address of the service…

Shipeedy Logistics, which provides partial maritime logistics services to all over the world with its wide and reliable service network, continues to produce fast solutions to its customers through Shipeedy.com. The renewed Shipeedy.com offers fast and flexible transportation solutions from door to door and from port to port to exporting and importing companies, especially SMEs. In the new version of www.shipeedy.com customers' demands and requests were processed into data using data analytics infrastructure and their needs were analyzed.

New interface, new opportunities and conveniences

Shipeedy.com, which will support Turkey's foreign trade and contribute to the growth of SMEs, will enable companies to receive better quality, easier, cheaper and digital services. With the new version, customers will be able to quickly get a 24/7 online price and request service with a user-friendly interface. Customer and region-based special campaigns will also be organized on the platform.

Thanks to the renewed version, partial loads such as parcels, pallets and sacks that cannot fill a container will be delivered more easily and faster by expert teams via the digital platform Shipeedy.com.

The mobile user experience of the platform, which will offer customized services for the needs of existing and new customers, has been improved in line with the ever-increasing mobility needs around the world.

All processes can be tracked online

The new version of Shipeedy.com, whose visual design and software were developed and projected by Arkas Logistics R&D center to improve the user experience, also offers the opportunity to monitor all processes online.

Believing that supporting on-site production in Turkey is the key to Anatolia's development, Arkas has invested in railways for many years, bringing innovation to the Turkish logistics industry and buying a locomotive. The company, which ordered five Euro Dual model locomotives with an investment of 38.5 million Euros, will receive three of the locomotives in 2025 in the first place. With environmentally friendly locomotives, it will transport import-export containers from Turkey's leading industrial cities to Turkey's largest ports with scheduled flights.

Acting with the belief that connecting Anatolian cities to ports by rail will encourage on-site production and has been investing in this direction for more than 20 years, Arkas, with the motto "The Power Behind Logistics", makes pioneering investments in developing the logistics industry, with Arkas Rail, which it established under the umbrella of Arkas Logistics, within the scope of the 'Arkas Anatolia Project'. In the 100th anniversary of the Republic, it continues to break new ground by using the advantage of the railway to connect Anatolia to ports and the world at affordable costs.

Arkas Rail, with an investment of 38.5 million Euros, joins Stadler Rail Valencia S.A.U. While ordering five Euro Dual model, diesel and electric locomotives from the company, it is also planning to purchase nearly 100 wagons. Thus, the company aims to offer its customers a faster and safer transportation service with lower cost advantages.

Making a statement on the subject, Arkas Logistics CEO Onur Göçmez said, “It was very important to purchase a locomotive in order to be able to carry on scheduled services on the railway. With the Liberalization of Railway Transport Law in Turkey, the private sector was given the opportunity to invest in locomotives. As a company that has been investing in railway equipment and land terminal for many years, we are planning to provide service to the entire sector with the investment of five locomotives, three of which will be delivered in 2025, under the umbrella of Arkas Rail company, breaking new ground in the sector. In addition to this, we are working on purchasing another 100 wagons in addition to our 700 self-owned wagons. Thus, Arkas Rail will transport import-export containers on scheduled flights from Turkey's leading industrial cities such as Kayseri, Konya, Ankara, Gaziantep and Eskişehir, which it currently transports by rail, to Turkey's largest ports. On the other hand, it will serve with reciprocal block train services in rail container transportation, which continues to increase between Turkey and Europe, especially with countries such as Germany and Poland. This investment, which we will offer as a new service to the Turkish logistics industry, is an activity focused on port logistics, that is, container traffic, and will support the railport in Kartepe in the North and the land ports in Mersin Yenice in the South."

Environmental Locomotives

The most important feature of locomotives is that they are environmentally friendly. Thanks to the fact that the electric locomotives that emit zero carbon emissions also have a diesel engine, in case of a malfunction in the railway lines or power lines without electricity, they will be able to continue their transportation without interruption by switching from the electric engine to the diesel engine.

Route scheduled services to Europe and the railway Silk Road

Railport, the land terminal established by Arkas in partnership with Europe's largest intermodal logistics terminal operator duisport, in Kartepe, which has been shown as one of the best examples of complete logistics applications, the importance of which has increased in recent years, is planned to start operating in 2024. While Railport is a transfer terminal where the cargo on trains coming from and going to Europe can be unloaded and handled again, Arkas will carry out European transports from here to Kapıkule with its own locomotives.

On the other hand, Arkas Logistics, which started the first rail transport on the BTK (Baku-Tbilisi-Kars) railway line in 2017, carries cargo to Europe in transit with the Marmaray connection on the China-Turkey Iron Silk Road with its company Arkas Rail, which it established last year. While these newly opened transportation corridors offer the opportunity to transport Turkey's export cargoes to other new countries by rail, due to Turkey's geographical location, transit cargoes between Europe and Asia can be transported through Turkey, increasing the demand for rail transportation in Turkey, thus new generation locomotives and wagons. enabling investments to be accelerated.

Arkas Holding Logistics Group continues its global investments in India after Europe and the USA. Having acquired an 80 percent stake in Fretlog, one of India's leading logistics companies, Arkas Logistics aims to strengthen its position in the 'India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor'.

The cooperation between the two companies was announced at a signing ceremony attended by Arkas Holding Vice Chairman Diane Arcas Göçmez, Arkas Holding Logistics Group President Onur Göçmez and Fretlog Managing Partner Muharrem Dursun. 

"Being in India will add great strength to Arkas Logistics"

Emphasizing the importance of India for the logistics sector, Diane Arcas Göçmez, Vice Chairman of Arkas Holding, said: "India is the 5th largest economy in the world with a Gross National Product of 3.7 trillion dollars and a population of more than 1.4 billion. With an average annual growth rate of 6 percent for 20 years, India is expected to be the third largest economy in the world in 2030 and the second largest economy in 2075. The country, which has managed to attract large investments in recent years, is also the new favorite of the global economy. The corridors established in global geopolitics are always focused on connecting India with Europe and the US. The North-South Corridor signed in 2000 and the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor signed this year reveal the importance of India. In this context, being in India will add great strength to us."

"Access to US and Asian markets will become easier"

Onur Gocmez, President of Arkas Holding Logistics Group, emphasized Arkas Logistics' investment strategy in global markets, which was launched in 2021, and said: "We have already started our investments in global markets with our new company and warehouse in New Jersey, USA. 

As a continuation of this strategy, we aim to position ourselves strongly and firmly on the trade flow route from Southeast Asia to the Gulf, from Europe to the USA by acquiring Fretlog in India. This strategic investment will facilitate our domestic and international customers' access to the US and Asian markets. We closely follow the US-India trade outside Turkey and our region. With Fredlog and our company in the US, one of our most important goals will be to take advantage of the logistics opportunities created by the annual trade volume of 200 billion dollars between India and the US. As Arkas Logistics Group, our international organization will be further strengthened with Fretlog, our end-to-end logistics service network. On the other hand, we continued our growth in Europe with the office we opened in Romania this year and the service contract we signed between Duisport and Hupac for intermodal transportation."

"We will add value to Arkas with our experience in India"

Muharrem Dursun, Managing Partner of Fretlog, stated that Arkas Logistics' strength in global markets will make a great contribution to Fretlog and added: "Fretlog, which has branches in important trade regions of India such as Mumbai, Chennai and Pune, will add value to the Arkas Logistics group with its experienced staff and organization. Fretlog is a company with more than 20 years of experience in India, providing end-to-end logistics services to customers in the automotive, pharmaceutical, agricultural machinery, ceramics, marble, construction materials and textile industries. In the coming years, we will continue to provide services to both local and global customers with the strength of Arkas Logistics Group as well as our new branches and investments in the country."

About Arkas Logistics...

Arkas Logistics, operating under the umbrella of Arkas Holding, one of Turkey's leading conglomerates, was established in 1989. Having been in the logistics industry for more than a quarter of a century, Arkas Logistics today offers sea, air, road, rail, intermodal, minivan, combined transportation, open cargo and project transportation, forwarding and warehousing services. In Turkey, Arkas Logistics provides services from its offices in Izmir, Istanbul, Kocaeli, Bursa, Mersin, Ankara, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Kayseri, Samsun, Trabzon, Ereğli, Bandırma, Konya and İskenderun with over 1500 employees.

Arkas Logistics has 500 tow trucks, 5 trucks and 550 trailers in its transportation services equity pool. With its digital investments, the company offers its customers the advantages of vehicle tracking and contactless operations.

With 706 wagons and 1250 containers suitable for transportation by rail in its Railway Services organization, Arkas Logistics develops alternative transportation solutions for its customers.

Investing with the vision of becoming a global logistics company that provides fast, reliable, high quality and digital logistics services, Arkas Logistics is organized under the Arkas Logistics brand abroad. Today, Arkas Logistics operates in Greece, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, Azerbaijan, India, China and the United States of America.

Continuing to invest in sustainable logistics, Arkas Logistics continues to support its environmentally friendly structure by investing in 5 Hybrid Locomotives.

Logistech Logistics, Warehousing and Technologies Fair, organized for the second time by Izmir Fair Services Culture and Art Affairs Trade Inc., offers its visitors an experience where the entire supply and need chain of the Logistics sector is together. 

The integrated service chain and innovations of Arkas, which employs 8300 people with its 63 companies, were presented by Arkas Line, Arkas Logistics, Shipeedy Logistics, Arkas Rail, Marport, Autoport, Limar and Railport, which are the main business lines of Arkas, the Maritime Group, Logistics Group, Port and Terminal Services Group companies. Can Atalar, CEO of Arkas Line, said: "In 2023, our priority was to improve the performance of our existing services. We have started to introduce additional ships to some lines where we will have difficulty in providing weekly service. The additional ships will create a new capacity of approximately 30 thousand TEU per year. We are also working on new routes. We will announce our new route at the end of the year. Various factors in the world will cause changes in supply chains. Concepts such as "friendshoring - allyshoring - reshoring - nearshoring", which have recently entered our literature, are the harbingers of this change. Turkey has the potential to attract many investments with its geographical location and quality production. Increased production will also accelerate the Turkish maritime sector. However, it is necessary to start investments at sea and on land in order to catch up with this output."

"We continue to renew the ships in the fleet"

"As Arkas Line, we continue to renew the ships in our fleet in line with our long-term sustainability and emission targets. Accordingly, we are prioritizing the upgrade of vessels with low CII performance in our fleet by investing in alternative vessels compatible with eco-design and new nearshore technologies. We believe that our technical and operational improvements will help us achieve our goal of minimizing the environmental impact of our business while leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. On the other hand, we have orders for ships that can use alternative fuels on our agenda. However, we are still in the process of evaluating the "right" options for Arkas Line due to the uncertainties in fuel supply and the fact that investments are spread over long periods such as 20 years."

"India will help us become a global player"

Arkas Logistics continues its investments and growth with its strong organizational structure in Turkey, which stands out as one of the world's most important production centers. 

Onur Gocmez, President of Arkas Holding Logistics Group, said: "We are increasing our offices in the world's most important markets. We are strengthening our presence in global markets with investments that support end-to-end logistics from the USA to China. In our 3 thousand square meter closed warehouse and office, which we opened in New Jersey, USA in March 2023, we offer door delivery FTL/LTL final transportation, storage and customs clearance services to every region of the country. We also produce logistics solutions for shipments from global markets to the USA. One of our most important investments as a logistics group is India. India, which stands out in new trade corridors, will be effective in making us a global player. We opened an office in Romania, where the largest number of Turkish companies operate in Europe. We will be involved in logistics activities both between Turkey and Romania and between Romania and European countries. On the other hand, with our office in Poland, one of Europe's largest Logistics market and export centers, we will build Logistics bridges between Turkey - Poland, Europe - Poland, USA - Poland, Far East - Poland."

Onur Göçmez, President of Arkas Holding Logistics Group, stated that the digitalization investments they have made at Shipeedy Logistics have helped exporters stay one step ahead of their global competitors.

Shipeedy Logistics, the maritime partial transportation company of Arkas Logistics, which makes pioneering investments in the logistics sector with the motto "The Power Behind Logistics", has further increased its growth with digitalization.

Shipeedy Logistics provides fast and safe partial sea freight transportation to 750 destinations in 150 countries. Thanks to its online platform, exporters and importers can get prices and request services 24/7. Shipeedy Logistics, which provides maritime partial logistics services all over the world with its wide, reliable service network and expert staff, offers fast and flexible transportation solutions to exporter and importer companies, especially SMEs, from door to door and from port to port via Shipeedy.com. Shipeedy Logistics also meets the needs of its customers from a single source with complementary services such as storage and insurance.

"WE FIND DIFFERENT LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS FOR PRODUCERS"

Stating that Turkey is a country that stands out with its location and production power, Onur Göçmez, President of Arkas Holding Logistics Group, said: "The logistics sector should be able to produce different solutions for exporters and importers according to their needs. One of these solutions is maritime partial transportation. Shipeedy Logistics, established as an Arkas Logistics Group company, offers an important service that Turkey needs in this context." 

Stating that they also contribute to exporters being one step ahead of their global competitors thanks to their digitalization investments, Göçmez said, "Our customers can get prices 24/7 for partial shipments to the USA, which can be opened to the world via Shipeedy com, and calculate transportation costs and track the whereabouts of the product online. Maritime partial transportation, which is one of the most suitable transportation types for Green Logistics, also contributes to the ecosystem of our world: By consolidating multiple customers and loads in a single container, both lower carbon emissions are achieved and the costs are advantageous as they are divided on the basis of the volume of the load."

OFFERS COST ADVANTAGE WITH CAMPAIGNS

Explaining that as Shipeedy Logistics, they continue to organize innovative campaigns that reduce the costs of their customers, Göçmez said. "Finally, we offered a 50 percent discount campaign on inland transportation service to our customers," he said.

Arkas Holding and its group companies continue to work to heal the wounds of the earthquake disaster and deliver them to those in need quickly.

The aid campaign that Arkas initiated with its group companies and volunteers from the first day of the earthquake continues to create more permanent solutions for earthquake victims in the medium term.

Arkas, which took action to heal the wounds of the earthquake disaster that caused heavy destruction in Kahramanmaraş, Hatay, Adıyaman, Gaziantep, Malatya, Osmaniye, Kilis, Adana, Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır, where approximately 13.5 million of our citizens live, and to support the re-establishment of a life, will consist of 1000 containers in total. started to work to establish “Container Villages” in different locations.

At the first stage, it is planned to complete the production and furnishing of 350 container houses, which will be built on two separate lands in Kahramanmaraş, where infrastructure arrangements and all permit procedures have been completed, and will be allocated to earthquake victims within two months. Arkas' Marport company undertook the construction of 200 container houses to be built in the first phase. Land surveys and feasibility studies are also continuing for the continuity of the project, which is called Arkas Life Centers. In the two-room container houses in the living centers in question, every detail is planned for the earthquake victims to live a comfortable life with all the interior furnishings, infrastructure, landscaping and social areas.

On the other hand;

Arkas Logistics, which started to transport aid materials prepared according to urgent and priority needs to the earthquake region with the coordination of AFAD from the first day, has so far shipped 79 truck aid materials and 16 truck life containers to the regions. While 100 tents were built and delivered to the regions, 2000 heaters were shipped to Iskenderun.

Taking action due to the congestion on the highway and to deliver more relief supplies at once, Arkas Logistics carried out the transport of 20 aid containers, consisting of 10 wagons, prepared according to the AFAD emergency needs list, from Derince to Iskenderun by rail, within the scope of TCDD cooperation.

Arkas Logistics; In cooperation with Arkpet, transporting 30 thousand liters of diesel oil from Derince to the Turkish Red Crescent in Hatay, transporting containers equipped with a 4-bed capacity, heated, generator cabin, air compressor, mobile electric, freight elevator to the earthquake zone, reefer with the feature of keeping the temperature constant It also continues to transport in different modes with its fast and solution-oriented approach according to the needs of the Earthquake Zone, such as hot food being sent from Istanbul to Gaziantep and Hatay with its containers.

In addition to delivering the needs to the region, kitchens were set up in two separate regions in Hatay with the support of Arkas Volunteers.

While Arkas Holding makes a great effort to deliver all support to earthquake victims in coordination with the crisis desk it has established, the kitchens established in two separate districts in Hatay, Arsuz and Defne, continue to provide and serve food for three thousand people three times a day.

In the mobile kitchen in Arsuz, with the cooperation of Hatay Arsuz Municipality and İzmir Cooks Association, three meals a day hot meal and soup are served 24 hours a day in Çadırkent (Next to Ayla Naci Uyar Anatolian High School).

Hot meals prepared in the kitchen established in Defne, where Kristal Oils also supplies products, are delivered to the surrounding villages by Arkas Volunteers with the vehicle support of Arkas Automotive.

We stand by our earthquake survivors living in the region

Arkas also works to meet the needs of earthquake survivors working in the region. All Arkas Human Resources managements contacted the employees working in these regions one by one and received information about the damage assessment and the status of their relatives. It continues its support efforts in this direction.

Arkas garages, warehouses and tow trucks in Mersin, Gaziantep and Iskenderun were opened for Arkas personnel and their families, making them social accommodation and accommodation areas. Three meals a day are regularly provided to Arkas employees and their relatives staying in these regions. Working on permanent solutions to accommodation needs.

In the following process; Arkas will continue to closely monitor the needs in disaster areas and work in coordination with relevant public institutions and organizations to meet these needs, so that the wounds of the region can be healed after the debris removal works and earthquake victims can participate in the flow of daily life.