TIRPORT Named Between Top 10 Logistics Technologies In The World

Tırport, the logistics marketplace platform that started its operations in 2018, is among the 10 logistics technology companies in the world. In the next 5 years, the company aims to make 1.5 million trucks with Tırport in the logistics corridor stretching from Europe to China and Africa and to reach an annual turnover of over 6 billion dollars.

TIRPORT Chairman of the Board of Directors, who has been in the process of restructuring and has been providing consultancy to various actors in the logistics sector for many years through a global consultancy and project management company. Akın Arslan set out with the idea of a new marketplace initiative in 2014.

Knowing that the ownership of individual trucks is very high in Turkey, and that even Turkey’s leading logistics companies do most of their daily contracted transportation with trucks they find from shipping sites, Arslan decides to make the same model to bring together the owner and trucker, thus laying the foundations of TIRPORT.

Tırport, which is among the 10 logistics technology companies in the world at the point reached today, aims to make 1.5 million trucks with Tırport in the logistics corridor stretching from Europe to China and Africa in the next 5 years and to reach a turnover of over 6 billion dollars per year.

He is looking for an investor at the seed stage, but unfortunately cannot find them because there is no investment in the idea in Turkey. In order to bring the business to life in 2015, it makes its own seed investment with the support of its close friends. He brings Tırport to life by taking Hakan Özçubukçu, a close friend from Kuleli Military High School, and Burcu Kale, whom he has worked with for many years and called ‘my right arm’, as founders. Stating that they rented their first office of 150 square meters and set out with a team of 8 people, Arslan said, “This journey has become a giant with more than 100 thousand member truckers, over 3 thousand member SMEs and big loaders, with which we travel today with approximately 80 people, operate in 7 languages and 10 countries. turned into an operation,” he says.

Aiming to operate in 10 languages in 20 countries in 2023, the company also plans to move its headquarters to the Netherlands next year. Stating that they will manage the Europe – Turkey – Near Asian traffic from the Netherlands, Arslan adds, “We foresee that we will enter 2025 with a global team of approximately 250 people.”

In the next five years, the company; It aims to transform into a global digital network with over 1.5 million member truckers, managing more than 30 thousand transports per day, stretching from Europe to China and Africa. Emphasizing that the future contractors of the logistics business will be digital freight services and networks, Arslan underlines that Tırport is one of the leading technologies in this business in the world. Stating that the company, which works as a logistics marketplace, started its activities in 2018 after a 2.5-year development period with an incubation investment of approximately 2.4 million dollars funded by the founders, Arslan continues: We have come to these days by investing millions of dollars. In addition to individual investors; Re-Pie, Hedef Venture and European investment group Encore have institutional investors. We are planning a Series A investment round at the beginning of the second quarter of 2023. We aim to make Series A and B in 2023 and to be a unicorn in 2025.

When we come to the unicorn threshold, we plan to have over 1 million global trucker members, to serve over 20 thousand SMEs, and to work with the leading logistics companies and manufacturers in the region. We will also manage a turnover of over 2.5 million dollars a day,” he says.