Ulusoy Shipping Group stepped into shipping industry in 1981 called Ulusoy Denizcilik A.S as Shipping Agent , in 1994, became a ship-owner ship-owning by purchasing our first RoRo vessel with 40 trailer capacity and opened Samsun-Novorossiysk line which bridge Turkey and Russia. After a short period of time, Ulusoy Shipping Group increased the number of vessels to three (3) and started operating between both Samsun-Novorossiysk and Derince-Ilyichevsk.
In 1996, Ulusoy Shipping Group established it’s management company called “Ulusoy Sealines Management S.A.” and started in-house operation and management of it’s own vessels.
In 1999, by purchasing two (2) RORO vessels with 80 vehicles capacity, began operating regular voyages between Çeşme and Trieste.
Due to demand from the market, Ulusoy Shipping Group decided to increase capacity of RO-RO fleet which were operating in Çeşme-Trieste line and supersede them with larger, 135-150 vehicle capacity vessels.
In 2003, Ulusoy Shipping Group aspired to add another field of activity to our group, the port management, by offering the highest bid in the tender and acquired the Management Rights of Port of Çeşme for 30 years with an agreement that’s been signed with Privatization Administration and Turkish Maritime Lines on 06.06.2003.
In 2007, in accordance with the positive developments in the world economy, Ulusoy Shipping Group decided to enter the bulk market and renovate our RORO fleet.
Today, Ulusoy Shipping Group own one (1) 12.000 DWT, one (1) 22.000 DWT which were built in 2008 and two (2) 80.000 DWT 2011 built bulk carrier vessels.
In addition, Ulusoy Shipping Group own two (2) 19.689 GRT, 2.760 Lanemeters, 195 trailers capacity which were built in 1987, and two (2) 31.540 GRT, 4094 Lanemeters, 283 trailers capacity which were built in 2013 Ro-Ro vessels.