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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).

Yilport’s Portuguese container terminals increase traffic in 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2018 – Yilport Iberian terminals registered a 5.8% increase in 2017, with a total of 1,176,496 TEUs handled...

Yilport plans 2018 Iberian investment

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 25, 2018 – Yilport, part of Turkey’s Yildirim group, is looking to exand its Iberian operations in 2018....

Yilport criticizes lack of investment of Tertir’s previous owners

Tertir, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – Yilport, part of Turkey’s Yildirim Group, and owner of the Tertir port operations that once...

European Investment Bank: Portuguese ports private investment plan 2017-2019

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 12, 2017 –  The European Investment Bank (EIB) has given details of a project to expand the capacity of existing...

Transitex launches LCL service connecting Iberian peninsula to Latin America

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Transitex, a subsidiary of the Turkish group Yilport, has announced the start of a “less than...

YIlport reviews its activities at Portuguese ports

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – Yilport continues to make investments worldwide without slowing down. The growth strategy is not...

Yilport publishes review of Malta Freeport activities

Freeport, Malta (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – The Yilport quarterly corporate magazine has reviewed the company’s activities at Malta Freeport....

Turkey’s Yilport considers Ferrol container terminal to be its most important project

Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – Turkish conglomerate Yilport looks at the Ferrol container terminal in Spain with great enthusiasm, due to the...

Turkey’s Yildirim gains full control of Leixões port’s container terminal

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Turkish conglomerate Yildirim has just gained control of Leixões port’s container terminal, the...

Yilport invests in Gebze and Gemport terminals

Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Six RTG cranes bought from Japanese Mitsui Paceco, the main equipment supplier of Yilport Holding Inc,...

Yildirim analyses investment in Praia da Vitória harbour in the Azores

Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Turkey’s ambassador to Portugal, Mehmet Hasan Gogus, has visited the Portuguese port of...

Yildirim takes control of Leixoes container terminal operator

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – Turkish group Yildirim now owns 100% of the capital of  Container Terminal (TCL), after the purchase of the...

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