In 1999 we began importing feedstuffs mainly from soybean, soybean meal and fishmeal from Peru, Chile, Paraguay and the US. We added pulses products to our foreign trade group by importing rice from the US, Egypt and Russia . In 2004, we established a full-fat and double-extruded expanded soybean (DEES) plant in Turkey, providing high-energy and high-protein product for the feed mills.Then, we built an annual 150,000 tons / year oil seeds crushing plant to Konya,( not to another port city in Turkey) to provide an add-on for the region for the farmers in 2007.

We encouraged farmers in Konya and the surrounding region to plant sunflower seeds with our purchase guarantee by support of our agricultural group. Due to this first sunflower plant in Konya, annual planting in the region has increased from 25,000 tons / year to 180,000-250,000 tons / year. As a result of this, we provided to the production of oilseeds in Konya and we filled a significant lack in the raw material market in the Central Anatolia Region. We continued to carry and important role on the domestic market with importation of feedstuffs by focusing origination at the Black Sea countries. In addition to our success in importing, we are progressing rapidly in this way with the importance we give to transit trade.

 

 

PRODUCTS WE TRADE FOREIGN TRADE

 

Cereals

We are buying and selling wheat, barley, oats, triticale and corn such as grain types from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, we deliver products from origin to the end-user. We are doing our trades with 3-5 thousand metric tons Coaster bulk carriers for close destinations and Panamax / Handymax or Supramax for far destinations.

 

Oily seeds

We mainly trade oil seeds such as corn germ, rapeseed, lin seed, safflower seed, soybean seed, especially sunflower seeds, prior from Black Sea countries and then from South and North America as raw materials and trade them to the end-user. We are doing our trades with 3-5 thousand metric tons Coaster bulk carriers for close destinations and Panamax / Handymax or Supramax for far destinations.

 

Legumes

We offer products such as green and yellow peas, white beans and rice, especially whole red lentils, whole green lentils and chickpeas.We are doing our trades with 3-5 thousand metric tons Coaster bulk carriers for close destinations

 

Pulps

We sell sugar beet pulp pellets, sun meal, flaxseed, rapeseed and safflower with 3-5 thousand tons of Coaster bulk carriers to European and Middle Eastern countries mainly in Turkey from Black Sea countries. One of the few companies in Turkey for sugar beet ,that have successfully managed 35% of the imported domestic market in Turkey. Corn DDGS is imported from the Black Sea countries, from America, with 45,000 tons of Panamax vessels, and is delivered to our internal stores in our ports.