TURKEY: VTG has announced a ‘sharp expansion’ in the Turkish market, bundling the activities of VTG Rail Europe, VTG Rail Logistics and VTG Tanktainer under local subsidiary VTG Nakliyat.
Offices have been opened in Halkalı and Pendik on the European and Aisan sides of the Bosporus to handle rail and tanktainer business. The business will be headed jointly by Sinemis Özden, Managing Director of VTG Nakliyat, and Zoltán Potvorszki, Head of Region South Eastern Europe for VTG Rail Logistics.
‘We will be able to offer integrated rail, container and multimodal project logistics as well as customs handling and asset hire services in Turkey and the surrounding region, locally and all from a single source’, Potvorszki explained on May 3.
‘We see huge potential in this region, especially for rail and multimodal transport’, added Özden. ‘By pooling VTG’s expertise under the aegis of VTG Nakliyat, we will be better placed to respond to customers’ needs in this highly promising market environment.’
