EMES Shipping and Transport S.A. was established in July 1996 in order to conduct the first container line shipping in our country under the Turkish flag. As of January 1^st 2010, the name of EMES Shipping and Transport S.A. will be changed to Arkas Container Transport S.A. and will continue to provide service under the brand name “Arkas Line”.

Building on the strength of the 66 years of experience Arkas Holding has in international transportation, Arkas Line offers regular container shipping between ports in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean with a fleet of 21 container vessels, most of which have the Turkish flag and some of which belong to Arkas.

Arkas Container Transport S.A. (Arkas Line) began as a feeder service established to transfer goods to large tonnage vessels that do not call at Turkish ports and transport the cargo unloaded from these vessels but today it provides regular line service with a container fleet of approximately 52,000 TEU including special equipment such as open top, high cube, flatrack, palletwide, and reefers to meet the import and export needs of an expanding and developing market. The feedering service continues to be conducted by EMES Feedering S.A.M.

Because there are no restrictions on coastal trade for services provided with ships carrying the Turkish flag, containers are transported between Turkish ports in the safest way.