As part of the CEO Lunch: Factory Visit series, we organized Soudal Turkey factory visit on March 18, Friday in Istanbul, Tuzla. There was a factory tour, Fix All product demo, quick lunch, and Soudal Company presentation at the event. Following this, the chief economist of TEB will delivered a speech on the Turkish economy\'s future.We plan to continue this series by targeting different sectors in each visit. We would like to thank General Manager at Soudal Turkey, Mr. Engin Tanrıverdi, for their warm reception and hospitality. We would also like to thank the Belgian Consul General in Istanbul, H.E. Mr. Serge Dickschen; Trade & Economic Attaché at the Embassy of Luxembourg in Turkey, Mr. Nicolas-Koray Namer, and all the participants for their valuable time and contributions. Please click here to watch the event video.

As one of the oldest bilateral chambers of commerce in Turkey, founded in 1926, the Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Turkey continues to support the increase of trade between Turkey, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as well as the participation of the new institutions and individuals in trade. We are glad to welcome MERIH INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT, a Turkish transportation company established by Hamdi Kilerci in 2001, among our members. In the business world rapidly globalizing, with technologies developing every day and distances disappearing, Merih Transport has adopted its understanding of the market as the whole world. It has covered great distances in national and international transportation and eliminated borders. Merih Transport, which has determined quality as the first priority since its establishment, serves professionally from its personnel to its vehicles. It offers a smooth and safe transportation service by bringing the insurance concept, the essential transportation element, to the foreground. Merih Transport has prioritized service quality and customer satisfaction and is working to quickly provide international transportation services to its customers with its experienced staff. To reach its goals, it offers a management style that adopts the understanding of quality, transparency, and participatory approach in its organization by using modern information and technologies and adds value to all its business partners.

Reputed historian Prof. Ilber Ortaylı and our Chairperson of the Board, Mr. Tuğrul Şeremet, visited H.E. Mr. Serge Dickschen at the Belgian Consulate General in Istanbul. They discussed the course of the joint event on the bilateral historical relations between Belgium and Turkey that will take place in May under the auspices of the Belgian Consulate General in Istanbul. During the meeting, H.E. Mr. Serge Dickschen had the opportunity to examine the original historical documents in the archives of the consulate building, Palais de Belgique, together with Prof. Ilber Ortaylı. We would like to thank H.E. Mr. Serge Dickschen and Prof. Ilber Ortaylı for their valuable time.

As one of the oldest bilateral chambers of commerce in Turkey, founded in 1926, the Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Turkey continues to support the increase of trade between Turkey, Belgium, and Luxembourg, as well as the participation of the new institutions and individuals in trade. We are glad to welcome Remant Cool Logistics, a Belgian transport and consulting company, among our members Remant-Cool is a transport and consulting company specializing in the transportation of food, beverages, and temperature-controlled cargo, including life science and pharma products. Their head office is in Belgium, with subsidiaries in the Netherlands and the USA. Remant Cool Logistics, dedicated to the cold chain, works as Transport Architect to deliver conditioned products across the oceans. Thanks to a dedicated contact person, customers experience personal attention, both commercially and operationally. Their staff is focus-trained into the more profound knowledge of shipping reefer cargo worldwide with combinations of first and last-mile care. Their team provides professional expertise in temperature-controlled intermodal transport. They evolve proactively along with our customers’ requests and market trends.