Pekin Baran
Mr. Pekin Baran is Chairman and majority shareholder of
Denizcilik Anonim Sirketi and affiliated Companies, a family owned group
established in 1952.
The main activity of the group has always been in Shipping,
specialising in worldwide transportation of dry and wet bulk cargoes.
Born in Istanbul in 1941, Mr. Baran is a law graduate from
The Faculty of Law in Paris.
He is a member of the Turkish Chamber of Shipping of which
he was the first Chairman in 1982 and a member of the Turkish Maritime
Education Foundation of which he was also the first Chairman in 1993-1996.
He is a member of TUSIAD, The Turkish Industrialists and
Businessmen's Association, and member of its External Relations Committee.
He is also a member of the Turkish-British and the Turkish-French
Business Councils of DEIK, The Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board |