About Us

In January 2017, MOL decided to place the Chief Country Representative Office in Turkiye and I came to Turkiye as the first Chief Country Representative. I started the activities in the time of the economy declines by the influence of the big terrorism in end of 2016. In March, The office has been approved as the Representative office of MOL(Europe/Afrcia) Ltd. and In May, I got the Work Permit and actually started to expand the presence of MOL and to find the business possibilities.

In 2017, MOL acquired the Time Charter Contract of the world biggest FSRU” MOL FSRU Challenger” from BOTAS. The ship arrived at Dortyol in the South East of Turkiye in November and has supplied natural gas to Turkiye until April 2021.

And in 2017, I visited KARADENIZ for the first time, and we have continued the discussion for the cooperation and in Mar 2019 MOL have reached the agreement to develop the “LNG to Powership” business with Karpowership. We have been trying to develop the business in the world, and it was one of our corporations, we have signed the contract with National Electric Company of Mozanbique during TICAD7 in Yokohama in Aug 2019. In this situation, MOL decided to establish the Company in November 2019 instead of Representative Office to expand the business in Turkiye and the cooperation with Turkish companies.

Due to Covid 19's spread of infection at the end of 2019, we had to cancel or postpone the projects we were preparing by 2019. In 2020, flights to Japan stopped and I couldn't even return to Turkiye for a few months. In addition, the period during which sales activities were not possible due to lockdown continued for about a year, but the activities started again in 2021. First of all, we decided to arrange the necessary PCR tests when entering Japan. The visitors of the customers who had come to Turkiye would go to the airport 10 hours before their flight due to doing the PCR test. At that time, all restaurants in the airport did not open and they had to wait for such long time in the departing hall of airport. So, we negotiated with a nearby testing agency and they agreed to go to the hotel to get the sample and we prepared the documents and handed them to the visitors. After returning to Japan, we received a thank-you note from them. After this we decided to make this our business if it would be useful to our customers. While the business trip schedule is busy, the time to go to the hospital and the time to prepare unfamiliar documents is wasted, so we will dispatch an inspector to the hotel, take a sample, prepare the documents, and hand over the documents to them by our arrangements. About a year has passed and we have provided services to nearly 100 people. We will continue to actively work on what our customers need. We also visited the Ship Recycle Yard, where many passenger ships that are out of service have been dismantled due to the influence of Covid19. Therefore, we learned that there are many items which can be reused from the ships and we have decided to open an E-Commerce site to buy and sell decorations and marine machinery coming out of the ship to be dismantled. In the future, we would like to grow it into a platform that sells reused products that come out of ships in the world. In the future, we would like to continue to carry out businesses that are useful to everyone, such as shipping and logistics, as well as businesses that connect Japan and Turkiye.

MOL Turkey is still a very small scale company started with 3 staff, however the staff have increased to more than 10 people in 2022. In the future, we would like to do our best for expanding the business of MOL Group in this region and would like to continue to do business that is useful to everyone and businesses that connect Japan and Turkiye., not just our main businesses of shipping and logistics.

In the last 5 years, I had many opportunities of discussing with the persons of Turkish Companies. I found the big Ambitions = Challenge Spirits from them, which Japanese Companies are losing. I was also influenced with them and I would like to continue challenge with Turkiye.

“The Friendship of both countries which connected by Ocean”

We shall improve more the wonderful relationship between Japan and Turkiye of long years through the Ocean, which started from the time of unfortunate accident of Battleship “Ertuğrul”.