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Introduction

Kumport Terminal is located on the European Side of Istanbul 22 miles West of the Bosphorous Straits on coordinates Lat 40° 58’ N Long 028° 41’ E. Kumport Terminal situated 10 km distance from the industrial zones is connected by the TEM and E5 motorways just 5 km to the North. Kumport Terminal situated in the Ambarli Port Complex in the Marmara Region 10 km distance from the industrial zones has been commercially active since 1994 and has become one of Turkey’s largest marine terminals as a result of the recent high increase in turnover along with the investments in human resources and modern technology. Our terminal located in a an important area in the Marmara region realizes a large portion of the county’s foreign trade and acts as an important commercial gateway for the export and import activities of the nation. With the awareness that the terminal exists as an important actor for the region and hinterland and with its high capacity and potential it continuously strives to improve and develop the services presented to its customers. Kumport terminal aims to provide a benefit to Turkey’s ecenomy as well as secure customer satisfaction by means of qualified human resources, upgraded machinery park and terminal automation systems to support high turnover.

By the end of the year 2011 approximately %13 of Turkey’s Container Traffic was handled by Kumport. Kumport terminal reached an annual container handling capacity of 1.700.000 TEU at the end of 2011 by means of investment and intends to increase this capacity upto 2.600.000 TEU in the near future with further investments.

History

Kumport started to provide terminal sevices in the year 1994 with general and bulk cargo in the beginning and in 1996 commenced handling containers. Especially with vessel calls of world known line names such as Maersk and Turkon, Kumport transformed into a container handling terminal. In the year 2011 Kumport was Turkey’s third largest terminal and first in import container handling. Since 2002 the rapid increasing trend in turnover was met simultaneously with investment in terminal equipment and technology.

The Terminal Operating System was inaugarated in 2002 and all available functionalty was utilized in 2005. With the procurement of 2 cranes in 2008 and one more in 2010 the vessel crane number reached 9. In 2009 8 Kalmar RTG’s were purchased and in March 2011 3 SSG’s were rendered to service. In october 2012 4 new SSG’s and 8 more RTG’s were ordered. In march 2007 %96.6 of Kumport Terminal Services was aquired by the partnership of Fiba Holding and Turkon with subsidiaries Kumport Petrol and Kumport Terminal Administration. At the end of 2008 shares held by Turkon were transferred to Fiba Holding. Paralel to the increase in terminal capacity the berths and basin were deepened to -15.5m to cater for the safe berthing of ever growing size of vessels.

By the end of 2015, %65 share of Kumport Enterprise was acquired by joint venture group of CMHI and CIC Capital which are subsidiaries of Cosco Pasific. %35 part belongs to SGRF (Oman State Fund).