Robert Yuksel Yildirim Ranked Among TOP 10 Port Operators!
Vice President of Yildirim Group, Mr. Robert Yuksel Yildirim didn't wait for 2025 and ranked among the top 10 Port Operator List of Lloyd's List by 2015 out of turn.
Mr. Robert Yildirim is 73. at Lloyd's List top 100 In October 2015, Turkish mogul Robert Yildirim, president and chief executive of the Yildirim Group, confirmed that he had agreed to sell back his 24% stake in CMA CGM to controlling shareholders the Saade’s, a move that will allow him to concentrate on his self-confessed first love, ports. The Yildirim Group’s port operating arm Yilport Holdings has risen rapidly in recent years through a number of major acquisitions, including domestic deals at Gemport and Rotaport, as well as stakes in ports in both Sweden and Norway and more recently the takeover of Portuguese port management company Tertir. The latest deal saw Yilport become one of the top-10 box operators.
TOP 10 PORT OPERATORS OF THE WORLD:
1 – TAN CHONG MENG / PSA International
2 – ERIC IP / Hutchison Port Holding
3 – KIM FEJFER / APM Terminals
4 – MOHAMMED SHARAF / DP World
5 – LI JIANHONG / China Merchants Holding
6 – LI YUNPENG / Cosco Pacific
7 – YAN JUN / Shanghai International Port (Group)
8 – LIM KI-TACK / Busan Port Authority & IMO Secretary General
9 – ENRIQUE RAZON / International Container Terminal Services Inc
10 – ROBERT YUKSEL YILDIRIM / Yilport Holding