Home Cargill involved in a major new port facility for Turkey Cargill and ROTA, a Lebanese company, are collaborating on the construction of a new high-speed import facility on the Sea of Marmara to serve the needs of Turkey's growing food and feed processing industries.
Turkey currently has only one other private port capable of high speed discharge.
All of the remaining public and private ports are hampered by low drafts and slower discharge rates, explained Ilhan Alcar, merchandising manager for the Commodity Marketing Division in Turkey. Raw materials such as wheat, corn and vegetable oils and proteins must be imported to meet this rising demand. That's where the new port facility fits in. Under an agreement between the two companies, Cargill will have exclusive use of the grain facility. Cargill Turkey intends to parlay the cost savings and quality advantages into a larger share of the Turkish grain and NGFI import market.