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EKOL Greece strikes gold

EKOL Greece received a Gold Award in the Freight Transportation & Freight Forwarding at the recent Transport & Logistics Awards in Athens. Country manager Dimitris Batakis said it was in recognition of initiatives including as a new block train connection linking Greece with Scandinavia. [+]

Europa signs new deals in Europe

UK groupage operator Europa Road has signed new partnership agreements for Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal. In Spain, Europa will be working with Turkish owned Ekol, to enhance its routes, in particular to Barcelona where Europa will now be able to offer services six days a week to and from the ... [+]

Ekol takes two thirds stake of Trieste terminal

Ekol Logistics has acquired a 65% of its Trieste, Italy port and rail terminal operator Europa Multipurpose Terminals. At the same time, Ekol’s new ro ro terminal in Yalova, Turkey is due to be inaugurated in early 2017. Planned investments in Trieste will allow two separate ro-ro operations to be handled simultaneously, ... [+]

A nuit to remember for logistics firms

Turkish logistics company Ekol and the VIIA intermodal arm of the French Railways won the Multimodal Operator category at the Nuit du Shortsea Shipping et de l’intermodalité Gala in Paris on 7 December. Three months ago Ekol and VIIA announced the start of a new service based on a weekly shuttle ... [+]

Sixth ship for Ekol multimodal arm

Turkish-based Ekol Logistics’ multimodal arm – Alternative Transport - launched its sixth vessel the Meleq on 18 November in Flensburg, Germany. The ship has a 280-trailer capacity and will join Alternative Transport’s five-strong fleet in February, 2017, on the Turkey to Italy route. Ekol Logistics and Alternative Transport chairman Ahmet ... [+]

Another piece in the jigsaw for north-south rail link

Turkey’s Ekol Logistics and the French Railways logistics arm, VIIA have added a weekly shuttle train connection from the port of Sète to Noisy-le-Sec in the Paris area. The two partners say the service, which carries trailers on rail flat wagons, is the first step in building a North-South rail ... [+]

Turkish logistics giant sets up in Bulgaria

Turkish-owned Ekol Logistics has set up its own company in Bulgaria, the 12th country in which it has established its own facilities. Ekol Bulgaria has been established and will be operational in 1-2 months from an office and 1,000sq m cross-dock warehouse close to Sofia Airport. Ekol Bulgaria country manager, ... [+]