Kiliç Deniz, Turkey (2)
With a 40.000 ton annual production capacity for seabream, seabass and trout, Kılıç Deniz is Turkey’s biggest and one the Mediterranean’s leading aquaculture companies.
100% of the company’s sea cage farms are operated in an off-shore system. Especially designed ships are used to transport seed fish to the cages. Kılıç deploys this specialized fleet to supply seed fish to all countries in the Mediterranean basin.
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In Turkey, aquaculture and tourism had to find a balance to protect our source of income: a clean Mediterranean.
Ihsan Bozan
Vice Chairman
Kiliç Deniz
1,000 x growth
Kiliç Deniz was founded in 1990, when Mr. Orhan Kiliç started a 50 ton capacity fish farm. Today, Kiliç Holding has grown 1.000 times into a Fortune 500 company.
$ 106 million export
With an export figure of 106 million dollar in 2014, Kiliç Holding is by far Turkey’s biggest player in the international aquaculture market.
80% land transport
Kiliç runs a distribution system that uses 80 % land and 20% air and sea cargo routes. The company carefully manages its carbon footprint per product/kg.