Port of Bandırma will be the gateway of South Marmara and Central Anatolia to the world

Çelebi Holding submitted the highest bid for the tender with 175,500,000 USD and won the contract for TCDD Port of Bandırma on 16 May 2008. Following the completion post-tender procedures, the contract for the 36-year operation of Port of Bandırma was established between the Privatization Department, TCDD and Çelebi Holding. Çelebi, aims to invest 50 million USD in the next 5 years in TCDD Port of Bandırma.

The port has connections to Istanbul, Turkey's business and industrial center, to the Southern Marmara and Aegean Region and has a strategic location at the south coast of Marmara. It offers bulk load, ro-ro and mixed load handling services. Also in addition to having the longest pier in the region it is one of the biggest bulk load ports of Turkey. When the ro-ro services commenced in 2004, Port of Bandırma became an important stop for the shipment of truck loads from the Marmara region to inland regions.

Çelebi, thanks to the railway and highway connections and wide warehouses of Port of Bandırma, is considered the port that can provide the greatest benefit to the Southern Marmara, Central Anatolia and Aegean Regions. Çelebi will start a reconstruction process for the port so that it can serve this wide hinterland with a capacity of 10 mn tons of dry bulk and mixed load, and 300,000 TEU containers and 200,000 vehicles in the next 10 years.

The Port will also serve as an alternative to the increasing need of automotive industry in Bursa, which has an ever increasing export volume.

The improvements are estimated to bring the share of the port in international cargo handling from 2.7% in 2009 to 5,2% in 2020. Port of Bandırma will not only turn into one of the logistics centers in the region, but also contribute to the economical and social development of the region with the creation of employment opportunities.