DP World Yarimca has been officially opened for business by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by teleconference.

The new terminal can handle up to 1.3 million containers covering 460,000 sq m, enhancing Turkey’s connectivity with Europe and Asia and enabling trade from the heartland of its most industrialised region, Izmit Bay. 

DP World Yarimca is the first infrastructure project in Izmit Bay to be run by an international operator, and the first in the country to use remote controlled gantry cranes with automated gate operations featuring a vehicle appointment system for faster processing. It also has fast scanner x-ray machines, the first of their kind in Turkey that can scan 120 containers every hour, two main berths of 465 m and 430 m in length that can accommodate two vessels at the same time and six ship-to-shore gantry cranes together with 18 electrical RTGs (rubber tyre gantry cranes) for container stacking and weighing. 

Mınıster of Transport, Maritime and Communications, Binali Yıldırım, thanked DP World for choosing Turkey for its investment. 

DP World Group chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem said: “Our investment is not just in machinery and equipment – it’s about our people, our most important asset. DP World Yarimca currently employs 300 people and we aim to reach 650 jobs when at full capacity. There are over 800 jobs identified indirectly in the local economy and many more local and regional supplier opportunities. This illustrates the ripple effect of projects of this magnitude – that boost economies and prosperity for the long term.”