☎ +90 232 616 34 70 · Aliağa · İzmir · Türkiye
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.
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.
Yıldırımoğlu is founded, trading demir – çelik (iron and steel) on the İzmir waterfront.
The trading house builds its own transport and logistics capability to move what it trades.
Close relationships within Aliağa's ship recycling industry open access to project cargo and breakbulk shipments.
From 1,000 DWT coasters to Capesize, fixing cement, gypsum, bauxite and iron ore across global trade lanes.
Three vessel classes, three cargo specialities — each run by brokers who know the trade, the ports and the counterparties by name.
Small-parcel and IMO-classified cargo, plus project shipments, on coasters trading the Black Sea and Mediterranean.
Dedicated gypsum trades connecting Turkish quarries and terminals to buyers across Europe and the United States.
Large-parcel fixtures for bauxite and iron ore, including the benchmark C3 (Tubarão – Qingdao) route.
An active snapshot of the corridors our chartering desk is working today. Select a lane to see the cargo and vessel segment behind it.
Bulk cargo fixtures linking Turkish loading ports with receivers across India and China.
Project cargo movements connecting Turkish industry with Canadian counterparts.
Project cargo trade lane between the United States and Türkiye.
Gypsum trades on Handymax and Ultramax tonnage, connecting Türkiye to Europe and the United States.
Project shipments linking German suppliers with Turkish receivers.
The route our Capesize desk benchmarks against — Tubarão, Brazil to Qingdao, China. Not a Yıldırımoğlu-operated lane, but the index our Capesize desk prices against.
Founded in 1976 — owners, yards and cargo interests we've worked with for generations.
Based inside Türkiye's ship recycling and steel hub, with access few chartering houses have.
From 1,000 DWT coasters to Capesize — one desk across the entire dry bulk size range.
Every fixture is handled personally, start to finish — no call centres, no anonymous inboxes.
Email: Chartering@yildirimoglu.com
Phone: +90 232 616 34 70
Office: Atatürk Mah. 356 Sokak No:16 Daire:29, Aliağa / İzmir, Türkiye