Source:Jctrans 14-12-2020
JCtrans: Would you please make a brief introduction of your company?
Murat Do?aner: ANKO Anadolu Konteyner A.?., established in 2019 and included in NMT Group, is a company operating in the area of supply chain management and international transportation, having TIO certificate, and is a member of UTIKAD and The Turkish Chamber of Shipping. Our company, having its headquarter in Istanbul, serves through its ?zmir, Bursa, Mersin, Gaziantep and Antwerp group offices and a network of agencies spread over 189 countries.
With its wide agency network throughout the world, it continues to serve, with a sense of qualified, reliable, and professional service supply and with its wide agency connections, to many regions of Africa, Europe, and America, especially to the Far East, Middle East and Mediterranen Countries, in the areas of FCL full container, LCL partial shipments, domestic transportation, chartering, transit trade transportation, and combined transportation.
Our company aims at long-lived associations by seeing you, our valuable customers, as our business and logistics solution partners with an approach of unconditional customer satisfaction; at a position of not producing problems but solutions; making no concessions on codes of conduct; showing maximum care as well as providing correct and up-to-date information at every stage of transportation process with a boutique approaches.
Under favour of your satisfaction we grow consistently and, by virtue of our close connections with the shipping lines controlling the world market, we expand our services with the fastest, most efficient, reliable, and reasonable pricing options.
JCtrans: Would you please talk about your core-competitiveness?
Murat Do?aner:
Import/Export/Transit Transports and cross shipments among third countries
Complete – FCL (full container loading) / Partial – LCL (less container loading) / Turn-key – 3PL (Third party logistics) Transports
Transports with Special Container Options (Opentop, Flatrack, Reefer, IsoTank)
Diversity-generating alternating services and Routine Services with the world’s largest ship owners
Close tracking , turn-key service and information flow viawide and strong agency network
Door-to-door delivery transports with self-owned and chartered vehicles.
JCtrans: What do you think is the most important thing to run a logistics company?
Murat Do?aner: Vision: By changing the meaning of customer and providing qualified, reliable, and affordable services, to become the pioneering company of the forwarding business.
Mission: Keeping in mind that we are operating in the service industry, in which customer satisfaction is the most important factor; from A to Z of our logistics operations, to provide you with time and cost benefits in the light of developing technological conditions and to become an institution that our employees feel proud of being members of.
JCtrans: Would you please talk about the situation of logistic industry in your country?
Murat Do?aner:
STRENGTHS
-Jeo-strategic importance of Turkey, emerging middle
The road from the Eastern and Turkic republics to Europe
is a center on it.
- The presence of multinational logistics companies in the country
It offers companies the opportunity to benefit from their technical knowledge and experience.
In Türkiye, Europe's
from large truck fleets
someone and developed highway
There is a transport sector.
- Labor costs are low.
WEAKNESSES
- Companies offering competitive prices with high quality services
forcing profit margins, especially in trucking
negatively affects.
- Unregistered activity in the sector leads to unfair competition.
- Modernization, especially in railway and seaway infrastructure
There is a requirement.
Qualified personnel are insufficient in companies.
-The preference of rail transport is low in order
OPPORTUNITIES
-International trade increasingly
increasing.
EU-Turkey's possible membership in trade volume more
will increase.
-There is a topography suitable for the construction of new ports.
The size of the sector is significantly compared to EU countries
it is small and the market is not yet saturated.
-10 main transportation determined by the EU itself
One of the most important corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia corridor that (Trecca) directly to Turkey
pass over.
-Logistics technologies are fast
shows development.
THREATS
- Quotas, visa restrictions, especially in truck transportation
and customs document obligations are high.
- High amount of investment requirement for logistics infrastructure
has. Failure to realize this investment on time or
There is a risk that the need for investment may prevent potential investors from entering the market.
- Increases in oil prices
Global economic crisis
JCtrans: Would you please talk about your strategy to explore foreign market?
Murat Do?aner: To increase product and customer diversity in the face of threats
JCtrans: What is the reason that makes you become a GCP member to develop your business?
Murat Do?aner: To keep up with the increasing FOB market conditions by increasing the variety of customers and regions of operation
JCtrans: How do you maintain a long-term cooperation relationship with your clients?
Murat Do?aner: Maintaining price and service sustainability for a long time based on trust relationship