Konsped’s founding philosophy in its adventure, which started in 1989, was based on bringing the railway transport to its own within the structure of Türkiye’s foreign trade and becoming one of the esteemed and reputable firms of the country.
Transport of goods on conventional wagons between Europe and Türkiye has been one of the daily activities in ordinary course of the company’s business since its foundation. In this context, since 1990, Konsped has played a significant role in transport of citrus fruits by refrigerated wagons from Mersin and Izmir regions to European countries and Commonwealth of Independent States. Beginning from 1992, Konsped’s role, which it took in combined transportation including container transportation on railways has come to the force as a first step in Türkiye’s foreign trade.
Breaking a new ground as an alternative to Road and Maritime Transportation, the said mode of transport has provided a twoway dry cargo transport between Europe and Turkey. Strengthening its role in combined transportation beginning from 1995, Konsped has put its container transport service through block train between Vienna-Halkali into practice on weekly basis. Committing itself to rendering service on every route where railroads could access, Konsped, since 1996, has assumed the leading role in Railroad conventional transportation from Türkiye to all of the Commonwealth of Independent States, predominantly to Central Asia countries. During 2000’s, Konsped has started new initiatives in addition to maintaining its leading role in railroad transportation to Commonwealth of Independent States.
In 2006, Konsped has had the prerogative of founding Railway Transport Association, which has become the first Non-governmental Organization in this area; and at its first General Assembly meeting, Mete Tırman, the company’s General Manager, was elected as President. Since 2007, the company has started to transport Türkiye’s import and export goods on block trains by 45’’ containers.