The starting point of Akartas Holding was the establishment of Pacific Shipping Agency at Izmit, Turkey back in 1999 by Burak Akartas, founder and president of our Holding today. The agency developed to Pacific Shipping Group, a dynamic maritime group, active in all aspects of shipping, from chartering to operations and technical management to logistics. Maritime Pacific Shipping Group manages today a fleet of ten dry cargo vessels ranging from mini bulkers to Supramax sizes operating worldwide. The Group via its chartering department has developed an extensive network for charterers and shipowners covering general cargoes to project transports and logistics Construction and real estate Ritrakons Construction Company was established to explore the advantages of the continuously booming construction sector in Turkey. The real estate potential is ever present in Turkey and Akartas Tourism and Construction Company was formed to explore this potential seeking opportunities and matching these opportunities with the right finance and investment. IT technology We recognized the importance of IT technology from our start point and we always invested on latest hardware and software and when necessary developing our own software. We realized the necessary specialization in this sector and we further progressed with the formation of Kocaeli Burada dedicated in internet media and site development respectively. Logistics and trade Caspian Trans LLC. was formed in 2001 and as its name implies is here to serve each and every need of transport in the Caspian Region and surrounding countries, whether this need calls for land, sea or air transport or a combination of all, in other words a multimodal door to door service. Our continuous maritime involvement with the transport of wood products, from wood chips to biomass made us experts in this trade field and we formed Trade Marine in 2014 to offer the advantages of our know-how and our contacts from the producer to the end buyer.