01 Sea freight · Denizyolu
Sea freight
Fourteen services out of Mersin. On the Mediterranean and North Europe legs the ship is ours, which is why the sailing day holds.
What we carry
FCL Tam konteyner
Twenty, forty and forty-high-cube, port to port or door to door. Reefer on all services; 640 plugs on our own tonnage.
Free time at Mersin is fourteen days on import, seven on export. We will tell you before you book, not after.
LCL Parsiyel
Groupage consolidated in our own CFS at Mersin and Ambarlı. Weekly closings for the Mediterranean, fortnightly for the Gulf and Indian subcontinent.
Minimum one cubic metre or one tonne, whichever is greater. Priced on the same basis every time.
Breakbulk
Steel coil, pipe, granite, machinery. Loaded on flat racks or into the hold on the conventional services, with lashing calculations we will show you.
For anything over gauge, see project cargo.
02 The ship
KERTE MERSİN
IMO 9812446 · Türkiye flag · port of registry Mersin · classed with Türk Loydu
She was delivered from Tuzla, İstanbul in 2019: 260 m overall, 32.2 m beam, 19.3 m moulded depth. At the summer mark she draws 12.00 m and displaces 68,618 t. Light, in ballast, she draws 6.20 m.
Her block coefficient is 0.665 — the fraction of the box around her hull that is actually hull. A tanker is nearer 0.85 and would be slower; 0.665 is what lets her hold 21.5 knots without burning a fortune.
03 Proof
See what a load does.
Same camera, same exposure, same light. The only variable is how much she is carrying.
- Draft
- 8.84m
- Displacement
- 48,692t
- Cargo
- 22,492t
- Aboard
- 2,397TEU
- Freeboard
- 10.46m
Drag, or use the arrow keys. Twelve rendered states, one camera, one exposure — only the load changes.
Where we sail
Fourteen services, published a year ahead.
| Code | Rotation | Frequency | Ships | Transit, days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MED-1 | Mersin · Piraeus · Gioia Tauro · Valencia · Barcelona | weekly | 4 | 11 |
| MED-2 | Mersin · Alexandria · Damietta · Piraeus | weekly | 3 | 7 |
| LEV | Mersin · Iskenderun · Beirut · Aqaba | twice weekly | 2 | 5 |
| ADR | Mersin · Gioia Tauro · Koper · Trieste | weekly | 3 | 9 |
| BLK | Mersin · İstanbul · Constanța · Odesa | weekly | 3 | 8 |
| NEU-1 | Mersin · Valencia · Antwerp · Rotterdam · Hamburg | weekly | 6 | 18 |
| NEU-2 | Mersin · Genoa · Le Havre · Felixstowe | weekly | 5 | 15 |
| RED | Mersin · Jeddah · Jebel Ali | fortnightly | 4 | 12 |
| IND | Mersin · Jebel Ali · Karachi · Mumbai · Colombo | fortnightly | 5 | 21 |
| FE-1 | Mersin · Jebel Ali · Port Klang · Singapore · Shanghai | fortnightly | 7 | 32 |
| FE-2 | Mersin · Colombo · Ningbo · Busan | monthly | 6 | 34 |
| ATL | Mersin · Valencia · New York · Houston | fortnightly | 5 | 24 |
| WAF | Mersin · Casablanca · Lagos | monthly | 4 | 19 |
| SAF | Mersin · Jeddah · Durban | monthly | 4 | 26 |