Hareket’s Mustafa Şener: Building Heavy Projects With Personal Discipline
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What role does Türkiye play in the global project logistics landscape?
In Turkey, we will continue, but definitely Middle East and Africa region is going to be the biggest and highest growth area where Haraket will be definitely leading in the highest level possible. We have invested quite significantly and continue to invest and even enhancing our service portfolio, not only heavy lifting and engineering and heavy transportation, but also on the maritime with bringing in new barges.
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including its latest Orca-class new build program, setting new benchmarks for green technologies. And through the JSI alliance, customers can access a combined fleet of around 90 heavy lift, multi-purpose and offshore vessels, further strengthening their global capability. Find out more via the link in the description below. It's Project Cargo Professionals. We're back in Dubai for another episode of Voices of Breakbolt Middle East. And today I'm with Mustafa Sena from Haraket. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for taking the time to come in after just getting back from Istanbul last night. Yes, no, thank you so much for having me. So interesting to talk to you. I know you've got a couple of passions, project logistics and fitness.
Perhaps we'll get onto that a bit later on. But to start, why don't you tell us a little bit about Haraket?
Yeah, so Hareket is a company already in the entire project engineering industry for over 68 years. It's founded in Turkey. Today, the group CEO is a third generation. So it's a very strong rooted family business, but grown collectively. quite significantly over the last 68 years to a really global, more and more global, but also regional power company in the whole engineering and project logistics environment, basically.
Okay, and tell us a bit about you. So you've been, you told me you've been with the company about a year now and you live in Dubai?
Yes, I'm over a year now with Haraket. I'm based here out of Dubai and I'm traveling between Istanbul and Dubai, my most favorite cities in the world. I used to work for a large freight forwarding company, Kühne Nagel, for 24 years. And to my background, I'm originally from from Turkey, but I was a grown up school and study in Germany. That's my German accent, which I couldn't get rid of.
Yes, we can hear.
And yeah, and I lived in my career, in my corporate world, in various locations in Europe, in the North America, especially USA for over eight years. I lived in the Middle East. First time I was stationed here was 2002. And I've seen also the whole development of this region, of this country. So that's my background. And I'm very happy now to provide my know-how, my knowledge and my experience to Haraket to support and guide them in the global growth in the coming years.
So I know some of them, but can you tell us about some of the really complex projects that Haraket's handled that really shows off what you can do here in the Middle East?
Yeah, I mean, Haraket is pretty much involved in all the sectors, all the verticals industries, if you will, when it comes to projects from the renewable, from industrial projects, from the oil and gas and also mega industrial projects that are in the urbanization involved. The biggest one that I'm really proud of is the the additional value add services with the assembly that we do in the wind industry. So in very complex environments, in very infrastructural, challenging environments on mountains to build up, to transport all the windmills, all the components, and then also building it is something that Haraket is doing outstanding with the engineering components that is really the key of it.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What role does Türkiye play in the global project logistics landscape?
0:00–8:55
2
How is the Middle East evolving as a major player in project logistics?
8:55–17:56
3
What distinguishes asset-based engineering specialists in today's market?
17:56–26:52
4
How does personal discipline impact leadership in high-pressure environments?
26:52–30:12
Speakers
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