Akaylar, has been established in 1968, Istanbul making Turkey's one of the oldest internationally Ship Owners company in coaster vessel segment. We focus Dry Cargo vessels with experienced management standards and skills activities under name of Akaylar Shipping.

Akaylar, is the solution for the customers transport needs for various type of dry cargo commodities. We use our experience and concentrate on operating modern, efficient and competitive tonnage to the benefit of our clients. With this diversity in our experience and modern tonnage we can guarantee just-in-time deliveries and smooth for nearly every cargo or freight contract.

Our quality management system is applicable to commercial and technical management a fleet of multipurpose general Dry Cargo vessels, member of high quality Class Organizations including pollution prevention requirement of International Maritime Organization (IMO) resolution and regulations such as International Safety Management Code (ISM), Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and as well as the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC). We believe our company offers our customers a complete and professional shipping and transport service over the world seas.

Akaylar, provides high quality standards Ship Management services including technical management, crew management, safety management system and procurement. We provide efficient and high quality solutions in comprehensive Ship Management with a special team of experts, with our wide portfolio which we establish long-term relationships based on mutual respect and trust.

Our strategy has evolved throughout time, our experienced management team and together with our qualified superintendents visit the vessels regularly and constantly monitor the efficiency of each vessel’s, identify areas for improvement, conduct feasibility studies and take action to optimize vessel performance.

Our planned maintenance standards fully comply with the requirements and constantly work to increase their efficiency for the Classification Society rules, International Safety Management Code (ISM), Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), Flag State Control of the country registred of the vessel and Port State Control of the countries where trades.

Akaylar, has an active chartering and ship broking department which, over many years, has built up and established excellent working relationships with many charterers and ship brokers worldwide. The department specializes in spot charter market and the shipments handled by our fleet are such as mainly Steel, Aluminum, Fertilizer and Agriculture products.

The main part of the Fleet is trading between the Marmara and the Black Sea. The East Med, Aegean, Mediterranean, same as Europe and time to time West Africa are regular Destinations for Our Vessels. The vessels are well prepared for non-restricted Sailing worldwide.

Chartering is not only for the company’s own ‘house’ vessels, at the same time, Akaylar acts as an exclusive, panel and competitive based with experienced and reliable ship brokerage and freight consultant services in the field of Dry Cargo Chartering. We can create the most cost-efficient transport solutions by making a perfect match. Due to our long experience, independence and established relationships between Turkish and International Ship Owners and Charterers, we have the best prerequisites to create the most profitable solution for all parties.

Akaylar, Agency Department was founded in 2012 and ready to act as ship agent for your cargoes and vessels in ports of Turkey. Our Istanbul office covers the all ports of Marmara and Transit Istanbul Strait and Transit Canakkale Strait. We also coordinate calling at all ports of Turkey with using first class sub agents where we do not have a local office.

We believe that the success of our Agency Department in matter-of-fact efficiency and competitiveness of our services. We are ready to provide the best service for protecting our achievements to our customers together with our experienced modern management mentality and operations team.

We Provide;

- Transit Istanbul & Canakkale Straits
- Ordering Bunker & Lubricants
- Delivery Spare Parts
- Delivery Provision
- Delivery Documents & Packages
- Launch Boat Services & Pilotage
- Pre-Arrival Notifications
- Transportation Crew
- Accommodation Arrangements
- Cash To Master
- Covering Cargo Documentation
- Inward & Outward Clearance
- Other Services on behalf of Charterer's & Ship Owner's

We, as Akaylar are aware about the importance of our personnel. That is why we are happy of rendering the service with increasing quality every day. We offer to our personnels, open to technological developments, share-mind and with a perfect team-work aiming to contribute their personal improvements and to keep their satisfaction at highest levels.

Akaylar offers a supportive working life which is participative and open for improvement and with which we can get the most out of our potential in line with our business objectives. We can identify the goals that will improve our professionalizm in parallel with company intelligence and we do business knowing what contributions our efforts provide to us and to the company.

In this context, the basic qualifications we seek in our colleagues are;

- Communication Skills
- Stress Management & Internal Motivation
- Result-Orientation
- Teamwork & Cooperation
- Time Management & Setting Priorities
- Taking Initiative
- Corporate Awareness
- Cost & Productivity Awareness
- Analytical Thinking

By filling out new job application from on our Job Application Page, you will be taking the first step toward working at Akaylar. Your application will be reviewed and evaluated by the Human Resources and you will be notified when a position suitable to your qualifications is available.

Respect & Trust values of all our employees by adopting a corporate culture is the foundation of our Human Resources Policy. Akaylar, at every stage of business and management; It acts with the principle of "Focus on People Approach" and which aims to grow with its employees and customers.

While trying to achieve these goals, it is based on the following basic principles;

- Right person for the right job
- Providing self-improving environment
- Planning & developing the careers
- Applying rewarding practices
- Evaluating the individual performances
- Focused on creating employee motivation
- Following modern Human Resources Policy
- Employee development with improvement
- Creating a teamwork environment
- Improving employee satisfaction

Hiring Process l Applications are preliminarily evaluated by our Human Resources department and the applicant is contacted for an interview if the competencies of the applicant match the determined competencies of the available vacancies. If the candidate is not suitable for the vacant positions, informations will be kept in our database within the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and will be evaluated for open vacancies when necessary.