The Bosphorus Shipbrokers' Dinner'
"The Bosphorus Shipbrokers' Dinner" as a concept, is the traditional gathering of Maritime Executives from all over the world, organized by the Turkish Shipbrokers Association.
It is a great pleasure and honor of Turkish Shipbrokers Association to organize Bosphorus Shipbrokers Dinner 2024 hosting sixth time which will be held at the Istanbul Congress & Exhibition Center (ICEC) on Friday, June 28, 2024. We are as Board of Directors aiming to carry out the success of previous boards into one step further with valuable support of all our members and sponsors.
All global market players of the world maritime industry will meet in Istanbul at the Bosphorus Shipbrokers' Dinner 2024. We expect from 40 different countries about 2,500 participants, which are managers, maritime executives, key leaders and decision makers of the Maritime Industry. The aim of our business is to facilitate international maritime transportation with our vast knowledge, valuable experience and network. In this context, I would like to proudly state that the Turkish maritime industry has achieved international integration at the highest level in Europe and throughout the world. All shipping industry including Brokers, Shipowners, Charterers, Shipyards, Ports, all our companies serving in the supply of oil, fuel, spare parts and side industry, and all office employees, including operation and chartering teams, our commercial vessels working in the international waters and all our crew working on vessels are properly certified and trained according to international regulations involved successfully in the maritime industry.
As our Leader Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk said, we consider Maritime as the great national ideal of the Turks in order to move our century-old Republic to a better points. In this regard, we, as Turkish Shipbrokers Association, together with all our shipping communities are working hard as much as we can in order to represent our country in the best way, especially in abroad with the contribution of our valuable members for the further development and progress of Turkish Maritime Industry.
On June 28, senior executives of BIMCO & FONASBA & FOSFA & ICS & HSA (Hellenic Shipbrokers' Association), VHBS (The Hamburg and Bremen Shipbrokers' Association) will attend our dinner as our valuable guests.
The opening of ICS Türkiye will be held in Istanbul on June 27 with the participation of ICS’s senior management.
As Turkish Shipbrokers Association, we participated the Pireas 2023 Ship Broker Dinner as guest of HSA (Hellenic Ship Brokers), also attended the Shipbrokers Dinner Hamburg 73th Eisbeinessen 2023 maritime dinner in Germany with 60 members. We will continue to participate in similar events in other European countries in the near future. Professor Hercules Haralambides will also attend our dinner as our honor guest who is a valuable treasure in the international maritime industry.
IMEAK DTO (Chamber of Shipping Commerce) as umbrella organization of our shipping industry is on the top of our list as our honorary sponsor as our usual supporter.Meantime we would like to express our endless gratitude to all our SPONSORS believe wholeheartedly our organization.
Bosphorus Shipbrokers Dinner is of great importance for us and will benefit for our maritime industry as it brings together the world maritime industry in Istanbul. Moreover, we make a serious contribution to the promotion of our country and lovely Istanbul and to our tourism industry. With the pride and enthusiasm of representing our country in the best way in the international maritime community, we are very excited about holding such an amazing and enjoyable organization ‘Bosphorus Shipbrokers Dinner’ hosting sixth time on 28 June 2024 with all our members and valuable shipping communities in our maritime industry.
Wishing fair winds and following seas…
Ismail Sahin, FICS
President of Turkish Shipbrokers Association
