Safi family will enlarge Derince Port

Safi family will enlarge Derince Port: Safi family, who migrated from Giresun to Istanbul in the 1960s and developed their business by working in many fields from restaurant, dry cleaning, excavation and coal trade, has also purchased Derince Port for $ 350 million. will grow 4 to 6 times with huge investment.
The Safi Family's entrepreneurship Safi family, which started its expansion and technology investment for Derince Port, which it took over in June 2014 by winning the tender to operate and transfer, starts with the Safi brothers who migrated from Giresun to Istanbul in the 1960s. The second generation representative of the family, M. Hakan Safi, said: “Our elders came to Kasımpaşa in Istanbul in the 1960s. They have expanded their business by doing business in many areas such as restaurant, dry cleaning, excavation, coal trade, and contracting. We are at work as the second generation, ”says Safi, and the biggest business at the moment is Port management. Hakan Safi, who is also the chairman of Safi Holding, which reached a turnover of approximately 2015 million dollars in 500 and employs 1.500 people, tells his family's entrepreneurship story:
GROWING IN THE COAL
Ilmış Our father Arif Safi (deceased), after doing some artisanship in the 1960'de Kemerburgaz with the work of his brothers were doing excavation business. In the 1990 years, when Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received his excavation works from the private sector, they turned to coal-mining as a new business. As the second generation children of Arif, Mümtaz, Celal and Cengiz Safi brothers, we joined the management in 2000 years. Me and my brother Atakan Sinan Safi and Mumtaz, Celal and Cengiz Safi are the children of five children. Currently, we operate in various fields from coal processing, sea transport, real estate to sugar processing and port. We import 20 million tons of coal a year in this country. We are a big supplier for both housing and industry. We're also owners. Our 3 ship is operating in the world's seas. X
DERİNCE-SAFİPORT
Reminding that they won the tender for Derince Port in June 2014 and 1 year after year, Safiport Chairman Hakan Safi said: we started. 350 will now rise to million square meters when our current port service area investment of 400 thousand square meters is completed. We will be able to serve ships up to 1.2 meters long. A very large port with a railway connection in the backcourt, we will also increase the capacity in this regard. We put very high-tech handling machines on the rail line. This will provide both high capacity and great speed in terms of service. At the moment we have 450 rail in the port, with our investment, it will become the 1 rail line and 8 machine. We started investing, we gave our machine orders. This investment is already our commitment to the state. Bu
CONSTRUCTION AND TOURISM
Stating that Safi Group will also grow in the construction industry, Hakan Safi said, “We gathered the managements of all our companies in our own building (Espadon Tower), which will build Derince Port. We have our own land in many places in Istanbul. Construction works will continue in places such as Kağıthane, Dolapdere, Etiler. We have a hotel complex project in Dolapdere-Taksim and an office complex in Kagithane. In Okmeydanı, we will decide on the project depending on the urban transformation process. We have 100 acres there, ”he said.
We have made RAFAEL from BARCELONA '
M. Hakan Safi says that they will complete all the investments in Derince Port within the year. “Derince Port is very similar to the Port of Barcelona with its suitability for every cargo (dry, liquid, bulk). So we agreed with Rafael Escutia, who designed the ports of Barcelona and Valencia. Derince, will become a very large logistics center, almost a 'Limankent' are set up. Because when the investments are completed, 2 will be a large complex where the person will work. Currently 2.500 people are working. We will also make a significant contribution to the decline in production and export costs of Turkish industry. The container volume will reach 400 million TEU and the bulk load capacity will be 2.5 million tons. Kont