Our goal as Sel Kargo is to establish Turkey's most extensive domestic distribution network and be among one of the leading brands that comes to mind in the field of national logistics.

Mr. Serdar Koçak, the partner of Sel Kargo Company:
Our goal as Sel Kargo is to establish Turkey’s most extensive domestic distribution network and be among one of the leading brands that comes to mind in the field of national logistics.
We accomplished our goals in many respects in the first six months of 2015 and this was a period in which our company achieved a higher growth than we targeted. It seems that the second half will be more difficult considering the current situation. Mr. Koçak, stating that they have put into practice the resolutions they have taken in order to sustain their growth in the second half of the year, answered our questions.
Can you give us information as to the development process of the logistics sector from its beginning until present?
The logistics sector continues to entail many areas in our business and daily lives more with each and every passing day. Players in the logistics industry, which were evaluated only as mechanisms fulfilling the function of transportation before, now continue the services they provide in a constantly expanding range just like an employee or a department of the companies to which they provide such services. Expectations and demands of the customers are growing more and more with each passing day. Expectations from logistics’ to keep pace with the development speed of the world and technology is also increasing. Personalized and specific service demands of customers for their companies is increasing while communication, information flow and presentation is showing significance more than the basic services provided.
What can you say about the mission and vision of your company which has strong goals?
Our mission as Sel Lojistik/Sel Kargo is to fathom the requirements of our clientele completely by listening to them and deliver our quality and customer-oriented logistics services in the best possible way with “win-win” approach. Our priority is to identify the needs of our customers correctly and subsequently produce result-oriented solutions which satisfy both us and our customers.
We, Sel Lojistik/Sel Kargo, determined our vision as establishing Turkey’s most extensive domestic distribution network and be among one of the leading brands that comes to mind in the field of national logistics. There is more than one way of accomplishing a job in the logistics field like in every business. We have found that the most important key factor to be successful in our field and increase our customers’ satisfaction is as to the local distribution network and we determined that the most appropriate vision for us is to establish Turkey’s most comprehensive and the most active local distribution network and become a leading brand in the national logistics.
Can you inform us as to your services groups in details?
We can group our services under two main headings as transportation and warehousing. Our main service categories under the transportation group include Domestic Distribution, İstanbul Intercity Distribution, Express Pallet Transportation, Project Transportation and Domestic Complete and Partial Transportation Services. We, as Sel Lojistik, serve our customers mainly by contracted working model more than on the spot requests. In this way, we establish a more stable cooperation and have the chance to respond to different needs of our customers during our mutual working period.
We provide packaging, palletizing, labeling, counting, checking, content regulation, order preparation, container loading/unloading and other services which will solve our customers’ needs in addition to storage in our storage department for products of which we make storage.
 
Can you evaluate your company regarding the first six months of 2015 and your sector?
The first six months of 2015 was a period in which we accomplished our goals in many respects and in which our company achieved a higher growth than we targeted. It seems that the second half will be more difficult considering the current situation. We are currently putting into practice the resolutions we have made in order to sustain the growth in the second half. We hope we succeed.
What would you like to share about the sector finally?
Logistics is gaining a more important and key position each and every passing day. New players and new rules are emerging. The significance of the logistics industry and companies within this sector will further increase in the future. Logistics industry and logistics companies will find themselves in providing services in more fields. And in parallel with this the companies will undertake more responsibilities such as providing better quality services and more qualified workforce. We need to perform preparatory works for these issues.