Welcome to F&L, where senior freight logistics leaders & their teams shape their own international strategies through confidential, invitation-only roundtable peer & expert exchange, enabling them to implement a more effective response to market changes.
Agenda. For leaders based internationally: meet peers based in Türkiye to better understand Türkiye’s critical influence across the supply chain, discuss implications & next steps for own plans and identify strategic opportunities. For Türkiye-based leaders: meet international peer group, outline domestic strategies & understand key priorities of international community. All: to network and better understand areas of mutual benefit and possible collaboration. This is a meeting by invitation: you will only be able to enter with an advance ticket. See [Agenda] & [Take Home] tabs for more information.
Meeting date & location. 24-25 September 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye.
What to expect. On 24 Sept – leaders’ round-table discussion agenda including cross-sector, expert & external viewpoints, community-led including but not limited to F&L Members, no sales pitches. On 25 Sept – multiple industry visits on both the European and Asian sides. See [Agenda] & [Take Home] tabs.
Costs. €450 card at registration / €500 payment by invoice + relevant VAT. These discounted rates apply to F&L members: non-member companies pay €2,000 + VAT or will be invited by F&L’s partners in Türkiye. F&L is a neutral (independent), non-for-profit and non lobby members’ forum using knowledge, skills and collaborative opportunities across the freight logistics sector to drive improved standards, learnings & the success of Members of the community.
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Türkiye - crossroads of the continents
A closed-door, high-level strategic commercial dialogue across industry sectors & transport modes
in-person | Chatham House Rule | no recording
The logistics sector is being driven by a high level of structural change. Dialogue and a closer partnership between peers based in Türkiye and international participants brings participating leaders new information, knowledge & a first-hand opportunity to better understand how supply chains and markets are being reshaped. Best practice, collaborative opportunities, a focus on priorities and building more efficient multimodal supply chains; what creates value for each company and stakeholder group?
24 September (Thursday)
June 2026 – we are working with multiple partners to put this meeting together. You will not see a detailed itinerary on the screen. The meeting will be held in English only. 100 – 150 leaders based internationally including F&L Member companies and across Türkiye. All participants will meet everyone present. No media, no recording, no online participation.
This meeting is for commercial logistics leaders and their teams. We are currently agreeing together the best format for the agenda. Please register now because at F&L we build agendas to match the interests of those in the room.
09:30 – 17:30, Istanbul
Discussion day hosted by Yapı ve Kredi Bankası Genel Müdürlük – Levent [European side]
Welcome
- Reasons & expectations for Türkiye’s important position in Asia / Europe supply chains – key link in the chain, developments in Middle Corridor & Indo Med Corridor, changing global supply chains & shifting European trade flows [core F&L theme] with new routes / hubs / partnerships reshaping the flow of goods between Europe and Asia, “European corridors” evolution of TEN-T & separate rail freight corridors.
- Türkiye as a supplier for “near sourcing” – manufacturing of parts & products eg automotive parts.
- Türkiye as a customer – understanding inbound flows.
- Improving flows – Türkiye / EU flows and capacity (congestion at land border; increased ferry routes; reliance on Caspian Sea ferries).
Evening networking dinner programme
24 September (Friday)
09:00 – 15:30, Istanbul
- Choice of industry visits on both the European and the Asian sides
Türkiye - crossroads of the continents
F&L has a single purpose: to exploit knowledge, skills and collaborative opportunities across the freight logistics sector to drive improved standards, learnings & the success of Members of the community.
“Take Home” deliverables for those attending the Meeting:
- Open peer exchange in a protected environment.
- Interactive agenda on key focus areas.
- Commercial priorities & actions – planning to prosper regardless of external challenges:
- Building on discussion from April & online
- Choice of behind the scenes visits.
High level overview
- Wed 23 Sept – welcome dinner & industry visits (tbc)
- Thurs 24 Sept – F&L agenda 09:00 – 17:30 + evening dinner programme
- Fri 25 Sept – Choice of industry visits on both the European and Asian side & continued networking
Dress Code & Questions
- General businesswear and any F&L members‘ products!
- Questions welcome – please get in touch.
Discounted sleeping hotel
Discount at a good hotel very close to discussions on the European side (near Levent area) will be confirmed soonest.
Türkiye - crossroads of the continents
Legal:
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F&L events are in principle governed by a tailored “Chatham House Rule”. That Chatham House Rule helps to create a trusted environment to understand and resolve complex matters. When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the tailored Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) in relation to his/her particular content may be revealed externally. Speaker presentations /materials can however be shared with F&L members and participants to the F&L event but should not be shared externally without the consent of the speaker or without his/her anonymization.
Türkiye - crossroads of the continents
This meeting is for senior business leaders & their teams; people who are actively leading industry today.
Participants will be added in due course and, in the meantime, you can see who attended recent meetings below.
Participant list for “Priorities & Choices: stuck in Crisis Mode?” (Apr 2026)
Participant list for F&L at Nike (Oct 2025)
Participant list for Poland (Apr 2025)
Participant list for Zaragoza Spain (Oct 2024)
A different goal...
… F&L was created in 1994 by shippers & logistics providers who realised that they could not tackle logistics issues alone in their companies, or within a commercial structure. They created a neutral, independent not-for-profit Members’ forum with a single remit: to facilitate and enable worthwhile peer discussion across the industry sectors and transport modes in a confidential, antitrust compliant environment. F&L does not seek commercial gain.
Mission – to drive improved standards, learnings & the success of Members by leveraging the multi-stakeholder international community to spark knowledge sharing & tackle obstacles from every possible vantage point.
How is this achieved? F&L is structured as a neutral (independent), not-for-profit, confidential, antitrust compliant Members’ forum and is registered in Belgium as an ASBL. Multi-stakeholder membership is deliberately balanced to ensure a variety of perspectives across a host of variables. F&L does not lobby but it does have strong relationships with policymakers and many other institutions and communities for its Members’ benefit.
Members are global / regional heads of logistics & supply chain, CEOs & senior management focused on freight logistics across the supply chain, asset owners, founders of critical solutions, all industry sectors and transport modes, based across Europe & globally (list). Unlimited licences are provided for leaders to share the membership with colleagues (no charge).
“The important thing is to avoid the ‘narrow’ trap & the echo chamber”
“Access to informed external views & sheer breadth which it is not possible to organise by yourself”
“Where else can you ask questions openly and listen to others doing the same?”
“Learn, benchmark & challenge”
“We make better, more informed, more robust decisions”
The British Chamber of Commerce in Türkiye is one of Türkiye’s oldest non-profit business organisations and was established in 1887 with a mission to contribute to international trade and investment by bridging businesses in Türkiye with counterparts in the United Kingdom and beyond. Its community, along with BCCT’s team and high profile Board Members provide BCCT with the ability to reach a great number of businesses, while the broad array of skill sets they represent translate into a robust capacity to deliver insightful, practical, value-added business support services that include business development, market intelligence, event management, and PR support.
UTİKAD was founded in 1986 and, as the Turkish Forwarding and Logistics Association, is the most extensive non-governmental organisation of the Turkish transportation and logistics industry. Members offer land, air, sea, rail, and combined transportation as well as warehousing services, fast cargo and package transportation services, customs brokerage and logistics services in Türkiye and abroad. UTİKAD acts as the voice of the Turkish logistics industry and represents the industry and its members on several platforms at home and abroad. Aside from its efforts aimed at achieving international standards and contributing to sustainable development of the industry and its members, UTIKAD conducts training activities for the fostering and development of a logistics culture in Türkiye as well.
Yapı Kredi has been sustainably strengthening its market positioning in the sector since its establishment in 1944 through a customer-centric approach and focus on innovation. Yapı Kredi achieved total assets worth TL 3.8 trillion as of the first three months of 2026. Constantly seeking to increase its contribution to the financing of the Turkish economy with its customer-centric approach, Yapı Kredi enlarged the volume of its total cash and non-cash loans by 40% y-o-y in first quarter of 2026 to TL 2.8 trillion.
Railport is a brand new Intermodal Logistics Terminal built in the east-west trade corridor with the partnership of Arkas, one of the leading Turkish international holding companies, operating with a total of 67 companies in Türkiye and abroad, and duisport, the largest intermodal logistics terminal operator in Europe. Once finished, the terminal will be providing services in a total area of 265 thousand square meters. Linking the countries in Asia and the EU through the Iron Silk Road (the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway) and the European Railway respectively, Railport’s location was selected to function as a bridge for transportation not only between the countries in Asia and Europe, but also between those in Europe, Balkan and Central Asia (CIS). The new Intermodal Logistics Terminal will integrate Türkiye and Europe with the route from China to Central Asia, which extends to the Middle East, Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Georgia through the Trans-Asian Railway Network within the scope of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The Port of Boulogne Calais sits at the heart of major European maritime, road and rail traffic flows. Anchored on the English Channel coastline, Calais is a European leader in roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) freight and Boulogne-sur-Mer is France’s leading fishing port and Europe’s foremost seafood hub. With DFDS, the port has a new rail freight connection between Sète and Calais offer customers transit times of seven days for freight between Türkiye and the UK.