Radar · Freight Forwarders in Turkey
Best Freight Forwarders Companies in Turkey
The 32 best Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
32companies tracked
$0disclosed funding
0unicorns
—have raised
Sources & further reading
- futuremarketinsights.com
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FREIGHT FORWARDERS × TURKEY
Our analysis of 100 Freight Forwarders companies
$9.9b in tracked funding; 81% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
100companies analysed
81%cloud-native stacks
2021funding peak (by rounds)
1unicorns
2001median founding year
433kcombined LinkedIn audience
87%of audience held by top 3
2companies hiring publicly (12 mo)
Ranked: Best Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ekol Provider of multi modal transportation freight forwarding services | — | 101 mo ago | Acquired | Ahmet Musul Founder & Chairman | 1990 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 2 | 3S Transport & Logistik Provider of logistics service intended to serve in Europe, Central Asia and the Scandinavian countries. | — | — | Acquired | — | 2003 | — | — |
| 3 | ACT Airlines Provider of air cargo, freight forwarding and charter services | — | — | Funding Raised | — | 2004 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365PHP+5 | — |
| 4 | Air Tech Kargo Logistics company providing international freight forwarding and air logistics solutions for shipments… | — | — | Acquired | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 5 | Armada Logistics Provider of freight forwarding, multimodal transport, and port salvage services | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2000 | WordPressPleskMySQL+11 | — |
| 6 | ASAV Provider of multi modal freight forwarding services | — | — | Acquired | — | 1994 | PleskPHPBootstrap+7 | — |
| 7 | ATC Group Uluslararasi Nakliyat Ve Ticaret Provider of logistics and international transportation services based in Istanbul, Turkey. | — | — | Acquired | — | 1999 | — | — |
| 8 | Aurotrans Provider of logistics solutions including sea, air, land, customs, and warehousing | — | — | Acquired | Hakan Sen Owner | 2015 | — | — |
Top 1 Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey
#1
Acquired · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 1990 · 7500 employees—raised▾
Acquired · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 1990 · 7500 employees
Provider of multi modal transportation freight forwarding services
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 185k LinkedIn followers — 42.8% of this cohort's audience
Founders & team
Investors
Europa, Cordiant Capital
Tech stack
AngularAnime.JsBootstrapCloudflareCore-JsFancybox
Funding & investor landscape
$0total disclosed funding
0companies funded
0disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Prism market signals · Turkey · country-scoped Prism corpus, 876,513 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Freight Forwarders coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · Turkey
How research on Logistics & Supply Chain Tech is moving in Turkey
A read on the academic research around Logistics & Supply Chain Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 62 Turkey-affiliated papers.
top research entities
- Yıldız Technical University8
- Istanbul Technical University7
- Dokuz Eylül University4
- Istanbul Commerce University4
- Koç University4
leading researchers
Bayat, Emre Altan · Bozkurt, Harun · Adil Baykasoğlu · Kemal Subulan · Guner, Beliz · Can, Birce Suzan · Yilmaz, Suleyman · N.A. �°
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Breakthroughs12 · 19%
▲ 0%→25% share
1 median citations67% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→25% of field), led by Fleet management.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Fleet management1→4
Landmark An Integrated Framework for Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems with Pick-up and Delivery Time Windows and Shared Fleet Cap · 12 cites
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Advancements38 · 61%
▲ 0%→25% share
2 median citations53% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (0%→25% of field), led by Vehicle routing problem.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Vehicle routing problem3→6
- Fuel efficiency1→4
- Service (business)1→4
- Fleet management8→10
Landmark Integrated Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment: Polyhedral Analysis and Benders' Decomposition Approach · 72 cites
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Concerns5 · 8%
▲ 0%→25% share
7 median citations60% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→25% of field), led by Fleet management.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Fleet management3
- Public transport3
- Toll2
- Intelligent transportation system2
- Wireless2
Landmark A review of fleet planning problems in single and multimodal transportation systems · 82 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Turkey
Where logistics supply chain is researched across Turkey
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Istanbul23 · +0.64
Ankara5 · +0.48
Izmir5 · +0.32
Common questions
How many Freight Forwarders companies are there in Turkey?
Radar tracks 32 indexable Freight Forwarders companies headquartered in Turkey that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey?
The Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey on this list have raised a combined $0 in disclosed equity funding across 0 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Freight Forwarders company in Turkey?
Funding figures are not yet disclosed for Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey.
How many Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey are funded?
0 of the 32 Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Freight Forwarders unicorns are there in Turkey?
None of the Freight Forwarders companies in Turkey on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Turkey Freight Forwarders companies?
The most active investors in Turkey Freight Forwarders companies on this list include Bravia Capital, Cordiant Capital, Europa, Fashion Technology Accelerator, Red Carpet Capital.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.