About — Our own teams at five gateways Done right, logistics is invisible.

Edolines is a freight forwarder running sea, rail, road and air transport, and the intermodal combinations of them, together with customs clearance and warehousing as a single operation. Our head office is in Küçükçekmece, İstanbul; our operations team sits in Beylikdüzü, next to the Ambarlı port cluster. We have our own teams at Mersin, Asyaport, İskenderun and İzmir.

What we do is, at its core, coordination, and in intermodal transport that becomes most visible: for a shipment to travel from origin to destination, dozens of independent parties — line agents, ports, hauliers, customs, insurers, warehouses — have to act in the right order at the right time. A delay in any single link holds up everything else.

Our promise is to build that chain on your behalf and run it through one point of contact. Instead of dealing with separate suppliers, you get one contract, one invoice and one phone number.

Our co-founder Efe Kamış writes about where we come from and how we see logistics in three short pieces: More than a route, Legacy and Next-generation logistics.

Our head office is in Küçükçekmece, İstanbul, and our operations team sits beside the Ambarlı port cluster; we keep our own teams at Mersin, Asyaport, İskenderun and İzmir. That is more than an address: we choose which port your cargo leaves from according to the route, rather than being tied to a single gateway.

Having our own people at the port means we can be on site the same day when something goes wrong. When a container misses its connection, when customs calls for a physical inspection, or when a document has to be walked through by hand, distance turns into hours, and hours turn into demurrage. That is why those ports are staffed by our own people, not by agents.

We have our own team at all five gateways: Ambarlı, Mersin, Asyaport, İskenderun and İzmir. We do not rank them; which one is right for your cargo is decided by the route, the sailing schedule and the cost, not by our preference. You should not believe a supplier who claims to be first at every port anyway.

The five gateways cover different geographies: Ambarlı and Asyaport open onto European services and the road corridor from the Marmara, with Asyaport also able to take large mainline vessels as a deep-sea terminal. Mersin and İskenderun serve Mediterranean and Middle East lanes, and İzmir (Alsancak and the Aliağa cluster) the Aegean and western Mediterranean.

The data sheet of the five gateways (terminals and operators, quay and depth, rail, customs office, free zones) is on the Ports page, every figure with its source.

We can also ship from Türkiye's other ports, such as Samsun, Gemlik or Antalya. The difference is candour: where we do not have our own team, we say so in the quote, and we never blur the line between the ports we know inside out and the ones we do not.

Abroad we work through agents: Thessaloniki and Athens in Greece, Skopje in North Macedonia, Shenzhen in China, Douala in Cameroon. We keep the same line there: these are not our own teams but agents we work with, and contracts, invoicing and official correspondence run through the İstanbul head office. We handle all contact with them; their addresses are on the contact page.

Direction does not change how we work: we run the operation from Türkiye for export and import alike. Wherever the cargo starts, your contact stays in İstanbul; the steps abroad are coordinated through agents and carriers.