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Ekol Lojistik A.S.

Ekol Logistics‘ international activities is focused on providing transport and logistics solutions for freight between Turkey and Europe. This includes forwarding, haulage, warehousing, customs clearance, and supply chain management. Key customers include companies in the automotive and textile sectors.

Danish DFDS will not buy Turkey’s Ekol Logistics

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) November 3, 2024 – Danish shipping and logistics company DFDS said on November 1 that it has terminated a share purchase...

DFDS to buy international transport network of Ekol Logistics

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) April 10, 2024 – Danish shipping and logistics company DFDS has agreed to buy the international transport network of...

Danish DFDS moves closer to acquiring Turkey’s Ekol Logistics

Copenhagen, Denmark (Ports Europe) August 22, 2023 – The Danish logistics giant Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (DFDS) has moved closer to acquiring...

Ro-Ro route between Tarragona and Izmir operating at full capacity

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) August 12, 2022 – The Ro-Ro route between the ports of Tarragona and Izmir is operating at full capacity. It started...

First DFDS vessel calls at the HHLA PLT Italy terminal in Trieste port

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 24, 2022 – The HHLA PLT Italy terminal in the port of Trieste has welcomed the Ro-Ro ferry “Cappadocia...

Ekol decreases travel time between Spain and Turkey to 60 hours

Ekol renders a new service as part of its intermodal transportation through a Ro-Ro line between Izmir, Alsancak Port, and Spain’s Tarragona Port – which...

EKOL logistics to start new Ro-Ro service between Izmir and Tarragona port

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) February 10, 2021 – The president of the Port of Tarragona, Josep M Cruset, and the president of the logistics company...

Sète port to invest €6 million in rail platform overhaul

Sète, France (Ports Europe) April 15, 2019 – Sète port plans investments worth €6 million ($6.8 million) to expand its railway platform, managing...

Trieste port to benefit from DFDS, Ekol cooperation

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 28, 2018 – Trieste port expects to take advantage of the cooperation agreement signed between Danish shipping group...

Denmark’s DFDS enters cooperation deal with Ekol, expands presence in Mediterranean

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 25, 2018 – Danish shipping group DFDS, which has recently expanded its presence in the Mediterranean market with...

Ekol starts regular Ro-Ro service between Lavrio and Sète ports

Lavrio, Greece (Ports Europe) August 12, 2018 – Ekol, the Turkish logistics company, is to begin a regular Ro-Ro service between Lavrio port, Greece,...

Ekol Romania invests in new facility

Bucharest, Romania (PortSEurope) December 22, 2017 – Ekol Logistics is expanding in Romania and has signed a 5-year lease contract for a new facility...

Ekol commission Yalova Ro-Ro Terminal

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 13, 2017 – In October 2017, Ekol Lojistik A.S. has commissioned the Yalova Ro-Ro Terminal, located in...

Ekol starts Trieste-Zeebrugge block train service

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 28, 2017 – At the beginning of September, Ekol Lojistik A.S. started a block train line between Zeebrugge,...

Ekol to expand Greek logistics network

Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The Turkish logistics group Ekol is set to expand its business operations in Greece. Dimitris Batakis,...

Turkey’s Ekol Logistics to commence operations in three Spanish cities

Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – Turkish company Ekol Logistik A.S. plans to commence operating in Seville, Irun and Girona, as part of an...

Ekol opens company in Slovenia

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – Turkish logistics company Ekol Logistics is opening a warehouse near Ljubljana, Slovenia, where services...

Alternative Tasimacilik A.S. receives EBRD loan

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 3, 2017 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will provide a senior loan to Alternative...

EKOL launches regular line linking Izmir to Paris via Sète port

Sète, France (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – Turkish company EKOL has started operating a regular line connecting the Izmir port to France’s...

Trieste railway line to make Baltic-Mediterranean transport more flexible

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 31, 2017 – The German port of Kiel on the Baltic Sea and the Italian port of Trieste in the Adriatic have been...

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