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B
ringing forward its strategic advantage
on its path towards becoming a branded
city, Samsun is getting ready ambitiously for
the country’s 2023 goal with a giant project,
“Samsun Logistics Village”, developed by the
Samsun Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Samsun Commodity Exchange, Samsun Metro-
politan City Municipality, Tekkeköy Municipality,
Samsun Central Organized Industrial Zone, and
the Central Black Sea Development Agency jo-
intly. The Euro 43 million project is intended to
make Samsun an international logistics center.
Planned to be constructed in Tekkeköy/Samsun
where all the alternative routes in the region
meet, the Logistics Village will bring logistic wa-
rehousing services to companies operating in
the region and will also make the region more
competitive. The construction of the project
has commenced this year and is planned to be
completed in 2017.
Samsun to become logistics center
Insurance agents set their 2023 vision
A
report prepared by Deloitte Turkey
under the title “Survey on Insurance
Agents’ Practices Across the World and
Setting a Vision for 2023” for both the Tur-
kish Union of Chambers and Commodity
Exchanges (TOBB) and Insurance Agents
Executive Committee (SAIK) was released at
a press conference. Stating that the report
will create a roadmap for both the insurance
industry and insurance agents, TOBB Chair-
man M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “We expect
insurance agents to cooperate and join their
strengths. They naturally need support from
KOSGEB (Small and Medium-sized Enterp-
rises Development and Support Agency)”.
Likening the relationship between the in-
dustry and insurance agents to an essential
principle of marriage, Hisarcıklıoğlu added,
“An insurance company can not be happier
than its agent and an insurance agent can
not be happier than its principal.”