Port of Gemlik

Gemlik receives container ships, Ro-Ro vessels on regular routes to Europe, and general cargo and project cargo ships on single voyages. According to statistics from the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, 3,467 calling vessels were recorded in the Gemlik harbour master’s area in 2025. This page covers the terminals, the anchorages and the service work this traffic creates.

Port profile

Gemlik is a district of Bursa province. Its terminals line the shore of the Ata neighborhood at the eastern end of Gemlik Bay, in the southeastern Sea of Marmara. The main terminals are:

• Gemport: containers and Ro-Ro.
• Borusan Port: general cargo, project cargo, containers and Ro-Ro.
• Roda Port: containers, general cargo and dry cargo.

The Ministry’s 2025 container statistics list about 910,000 TEU for Gemlik. The 2025 Ro-Ro statistics show regular lines from Gemlik to Trieste, Patras, Marseille, Valencia, Vasto and Monfalcone. So Gemlik is not only a container gateway but also a Ro-Ro port with direct links to Europe.

Vessel traffic and anchorages

Traffic falls into three groups: container services, Ro-Ro vessels to and from Europe, and general cargo and project cargo ships on single voyages. Inbound ships take their pilot at a boarding point just north of the terminals.

The Gemlik Regional Harbour Master defines two anchorages:

• Anchorage No. 1: ships not carrying dangerous goods, and naval vessels.
• Anchorage No. 2: ships carrying dangerous goods, ships placed in quarantine and ships gas-freeing.

Both lie inside the bay, a few nautical miles north of the terminals. A ship waiting for a berth stays at anchor there, and provisions, spare parts and survey work can be planned around that wait.

Which service companies find work at Gemlik?

• Ship agents: besides the Ro-Ro and container lines, tramp ships carrying project cargo need an agent on every call. See our page for ship agents.
• Ship chandlers: on Ro-Ro routes the same ships return to the same port at regular intervals, so a relationship built at the right time can turn into repeat orders.
• Surveyors: damage surveys for vehicles and project cargo, lashing checks and cargo surveys. See marine surveyors.
• Technical service and spare parts firms: repairs and parts deliveries that fit a short berth window.

How does VesselCall monitor Gemlik?

Outreach asks for a separate range for each port: a radius in nautical miles (nm) measured from the port center. For Gemlik we suggest 10 nm. That circle covers the three terminals, both anchorages and the pilot boarding point, and it picks up a ship coming through the inner bay before it reaches the berth. A larger circle catches ships earlier but also includes ships heading to other piers in the bay.

For every cargo ship, tanker and passenger ship inside the range, VesselCall finds the ship manager through the IMO number, verifies the business e-mail address and sends your introduction e-mail, translated into the recipient’s language, from your own domain. The same vessel never gets a second e-mail within 7 days, even if it calls at another Turkish port after Gemlik.

The Data package records the port calls of ships arriving at Gemlik independently of e-mail sending: arrival, departure, length of stay, at anchor or at berth. Monthly or yearly reports show the vessel list, the flag split and the most frequent ship managers. Records build up from the day monitoring starts.