Yildirim Group
YILDIRIM Group is a family-owned business, held 100% privately by the YILDIRIM Family. It is managed by brothers Ali Rıza Yıldırım and Robert Yüksel Yıldırım. OIzs port division is Yilport.
Yilport Holding is an international port operator with European commercial interests in Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Portugal, Spain and Italy. South European terminals include Gebze, Solventas, Gemport, Rotaport (all Turkey), Liscont, Figueira da For, Sotagas, Leixoes, Aveiro, Setubal, Tersado (all Portugal), Ferrol, and Huelva (both Spain), and Taranto (Italy).
Orange Business builds global network for YILPORT
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) December 1, 2023 – Orange Business has signed a contract with YILPORT to provide a global wide area network (WAN) for...
Hapag-Lloyd connect YILPORT Liscont with TEX service
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 6, 2023 – The German shipper Hapag-Lloyd has said that its TEX service will start calling at YILPORT Liscont in...
Yilport Holding acquires Port of Šibenik, Croatia
Šibenik, Croatia (PortSEurope) February 22, 2023 – Yilport Holding has taken over the operations at Port of Šibenik, located on the Adriatic coast of...
Yilport presents Liscont investment
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 10, 2022 – Yilport is to present Liscont investment of around €200 million with the visit of CEO Robert...
Yilport Holding appoints Boris Wenzel as co-CEO
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) August 17, 2022 – Yilport Holding has announced the appointment of Boris Wenzel as its co-CEO and Chief Strategy &...
Yilport holding breaks all-time container handling record in first half of 2022
Yilport Holding had another successful half-year benefitting from recent investments. The company moves towards the target of being one of the top global...
Port of Taranto rejects Yilport business plan
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) June 2, 2022 – The Port Authority of the Ionian Sea-Port of Taranto (AdSP) has rejected a revised business plan from...
Port of Taranto sees January cargo handled down -31%
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 11, 2022 – The Port of Taranto has published cargo numbers for January 2022, which shows total cargo handled of 1.03...
Yildirim will end its interest in bidding for a tender to manage a terminal in Haifa port, Israel
Haifa, Israel (Ports Europe) February 15, 2022 – Turkey’s Dünya newspaper has reported that the Turkish company Yildirim will end its interest in...
Yilport’s San Cataldo Container Terminal in Taranto port hires workers
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – In a positive start to 2022, the San Cataldo Container Terminal (SCCT) in the Port of Taranto has hired...
Yilport takes full control of the Lisbon container terminal
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – Turkish port and terminal operator Yilport has purchased the 16.34% share in Liscont Operadores de...
DP World pulls out of Haifa port privatisation tender
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) December 3, 2021 – DP World of Dubai has withdrawn from the tender to operate the Israeli port of Haifa. This was reported by...
Yildirim considers CMA CGM share sale
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 6, 2021 – Last week, Lloyds List reported that Robert Yuksel Yildirim, President and CEO of Yildirim Group of...
Yilport Holding sees strong growth in first half
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 1, 2021 – In January-June 2021, terminals owned by Yilport Holdings handled 2.5 million TEU containers, up 18%...
Kalmar and Yilport strengthen long-term collaboration with a large new order for mobile equipment solutions
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has concluded a large order from YILPORT Holding Inc. for 27 new Kalmar machines: 11 reachstackers, four empty container handlers and...
DP World makes progress in Haifa port bid
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) January 29, 2021 – Officials in Israel have approved DP World as a bidder in the tender to operate facilities at Haifa port....
Yilport holding appoints Nicolas Sartini as co-CEO
January 25, 2021 The only Turkish company to be listed among international port operators, Istanbul-based Yilport Holding, a Yildirim Group subsidiary,...
Analysis – Could DP World and Maersk prevent China from taking over all Haifa Bay ports?
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) November 2, 2020 – At the end of October, Israel Shipyards Industries together with Dubai-based DP World submitted a...
YILPORT issues press release denying COSCO link in Taranto port
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) October 27, 2020 – YILPORT, the Turkish port operator, has issued a press release stating that it and/ot its affiliate San...
Turkish and UAE companies interested in Haifa port
Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) October 25, 2020 – Reports from Bloomberg and local source suggest that Turkish and UAE companies may be interesting in...