International road freight · İstanbul

The new normal runs by road — and we built our fleet for it.

Cross-border road freight between the EU, the CIS and the Gulf — through one hub: İstanbul. We clear the paperwork before the wheels turn.

EU CIS / Central Asia GCC / Middle East
Active lanes via İstanbul
The corridors

Three blocs. One hub. One partner.

Most forwarders run one of these regions well. We run all three — because every lane we operate crosses the same hub, and we own what happens there.

Corridor 01

European Union

Industrial goods, machinery and project cargo between EU plants and Eastern markets. T1/T2 transit handled at origin, not at the border.

  • Germany
  • France
  • Italy
  • Poland
  • Netherlands
  • Romania
  • Bulgaria
Corridor 02

CIS & Central Asia

FTL and consolidated loads across the Caucasus and the steppe — the lanes Western forwarders find hardest to read, and the ones we know best.

  • Russia
  • Belarus
  • Kazakhstan
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Uzbekistan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Turkmenistan
Corridor 03

GCC & Middle East

Road freight into the Gulf — temperature-controlled, ADR and standard dry — with transit documentation prepared for every border on the route.

  • Saudi Arabia
  • UAE
  • Qatar
  • Kuwait
  • Iraq
  • Jordan

Every lane crosses one hub: İstanbul. That is where the three corridors become one network.

Why İLKE

Certainty on routes where others offer hope.

İlke means "principle" in Turkish. It shows in how the work is done: documents right the first time, carriers we have run with for years, and one person who answers.

01

Documentation that clears first time

We fill, check and pre-clear the paperwork before dispatch — so the truck doesn't wait at the border while someone fixes a mismatch.

CMR TIR T1 / T2 ATR / EUR.1 ADR
02

Carrier networks

Established carriers across all three corridors — the EU, the CIS and the Gulf — vetted, insured, and known to us by name. Capacity you can book against, not capacity we hope to find.

03

Transparent lane operations

You know where the truck is, which border is next, and what the documents say. No silence between pickup and delivery.

04

A single point of contact

One operator owns your shipment end to end. When you call, the person who answers already knows the lane, the load and the paperwork.

How we work

From enquiry to delivery, one straight line.

Step 01

Enquiry

Send the lane, the load and the dates. You get a firm quote and a named operator — not a ticket number.

Step 02

Documentation & compliance

CMR, transit and certificates of origin prepared and checked against every border on the route — before dispatch.

Step 03

Dispatch

The truck moves only when the paperwork is ready to clear. Loading confirmed, seals recorded, documents in hand.

Step 04

Delivery across corridors

Border by border, you're informed at each crossing. POD returned and archived on delivery.

İLKE FREIGHT fleet lined up at the İstanbul yard Our fleet — 50+ trucks · İstanbul
The network in numbers

Built for the corridors others avoid.

3
Freight corridors
21
Countries on active lanes
50+
Trucks in our own fleet
1
Hub — İstanbul
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Start a lane

Tell us the lane. We'll tell you exactly how it clears.

Send the route and the cargo. You'll hear back from an operator who has run it — with a firm quote and the document list, not a brochure.