Port of Aliağa
Dry Bulk Chartering & Shipbroking
Five decades moving the world’s raw materials.
Independent chartering and shipbroking out of Aliağa, Türkiye — built on relationships that go back to 1976, from steel trading on the İzmir docks to fixtures on five continents today.
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İzmir Headquarters
Our Heritage
Fifty years between the mill and the sea
Yıldırımoğlu began in 1976 as a steel trading house in İzmir, buying and selling the raw material that built Turkey’s industrial coast. As the business grew, we moved into logistics — putting our own trucks and, later, our own chartering desk behind every cargo we traded.
Our proximity to Aliağa, home to one of the world’s largest ship recycling clusters, opened a door most chartering houses never find: direct relationships with owners, yards and cargo interests that led us into project and breakbulk shipments. From there, the step into dry bulk — cement, gypsum, bauxite, iron ore — was a natural one.
Still independent. Still broker-led. Still in Aliağa.
1976
A steel trading house in İzmir
Yıldırımoğlu is founded, trading demir – çelik (iron and steel) on the İzmir waterfront.
Growth
Into logistics and transport
The trading house builds its own transport and logistics capability to move what it trades.
Aliağa
Project & breakbulk, through ship recycling ties
Close relationships within Aliağa’s ship recycling industry open access to project cargo and breakbulk shipments.
Today
A full dry bulk chartering desk
From 1,000 DWT coasters to Capesize, fixing cement, gypsum, bauxite and iron ore across global trade lanes.
Services
Coverage across every dry bulk segment
Three vessel classes, three cargo specialities — each run by brokers who know the trade, the ports and the counterparties by name.
1,000–3,000 DWT · Coasters
IMO & Project Cargo
Small-parcel and IMO-classified cargo, plus project shipments, on coasters trading the Black Sea and Mediterranean.
Black Sea – MediterraneanHandymax & Ultramax
Gypsum
Dedicated gypsum trades connecting Turkish quarries and terminals to buyers across Europe and the United States.
Türkiye – Europe – USAPanamax & Capesize
Bauxite & Iron Ore
Large-parcel fixtures for bauxite and iron ore, including the benchmark C3 (Tubarão – Qingdao) route.
Global · C3 benchmarkTrade Routes
Where we’re moving cargo right now
An active snapshot of the corridors our chartering desk is working today. Select a lane to see the cargo and vessel segment behind it.
Dry Bulk
Türkiye – India – China
Bulk cargo fixtures linking Turkish loading ports with receivers across India and China.
Dry bulk
Project cargo
Breakbulk / Handy–Ultra
Why Yıldırımoğlu
An independent desk, not a faceless platform
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Half a century of relationships
Founded in 1976 — owners, yards and cargo interests we’ve worked with for generations.
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Rooted in Aliağa
Based inside Türkiye’s ship recycling and steel hub, with access few chartering houses have.
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Full-segment coverage
From 1,000 DWT coasters to Capesize — one desk across the entire dry bulk size range.
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Broker-led, always
Every fixture is handled personally, start to finish – no call centres, no anonymous inboxes.
Contact
Let’s talk cargo
Send fixture details, positions or general enquiries — our desk responds directly, no intermediaries.
Phone
Office
Atatürk Mah. 356 Sokak No:16 Daire:29
Aliağa / İzmir, Türkiye
Aliağa / İzmir, Türkiye