Shell & Turcas is a 65% shareholder of Çekisan Storage Services Ltd. in Istanbul, which started operations in 1993. Shell & Turcas’ partner in Çekisan is Petrol Ofisi (a Vitol subsidiary) with a 35% stake.
Çekisan started operations in 1993 via renting Exxonmobil’s Cekmece terminal, İskenderun terminal owned by Shell and the Antalya terminal co-owned by Shell and Exxonmobil. Number of the active terminals operated by the Company decreased to one after İskenderun terminal was taken out of the system in 2009 and later Çekmece terminal in 2014. Antalya terminal has a storage capacity of 40,586 m³.
