Arkas is an international holding.
An international holding
with 59 offices and 7300 employees in 23 countries
with 61 companies.
It does end-to-end logistics.
We have a maritime merchant fleet.
We are Turkey's biggest
shipowner with 25 ships.
In the list of shipowners in the world
we are in the top 30 in terms of capacity.
Sustainability is actually a term that
needs to be implemented with
processes that require
serious investment.
We, as the holding
have tried to integrate
sustainability into
our lives
in all projects we do.
At Arkas Line,
our shipping company
we have
serious investments
in terms of sustainability.
Since 2011
we have achieved a value gain of
26.2 percent in carbon emissions and
82.68 percent on the sulfur side.
On the logistics side,
our other main field of activity
we have invested in trucks
with Euro 6 standard.
The reason is they use engines with
the lowest carbon emissions.
Our business has increased by 22 percent
while carbon emissions have decreased
by 58 percent
in the last five years.
We did a project
with Microsoft to migrate to
Microsoft Cloud in 2018.
In other words
whatever is being done under
the name of technology today
we made the biggest
cloud migration of that time in Turkey
and moved them
to Microsoft Azure Cloud.
When we do this
naturally an emission savings
emerges.
We wanted to measure this
with Microsoft.
When we measured it,
we were faced with
99.58 percent carbon savings.
This savings figure is
equal to 1.4 million miles
of car travel.
Data centers
are environments
that have a serious need
for electricity.
So when we move to Microsoft Data Centers
we no longer produce electricity.
Microsoft makes its data centers
very efficient in terms of sustainability
with the latest technology
within the framework of its sustainability policies
together with green energy.
And when we measure this,
it's called "Carbon Intensity"
we are faced with a 75% efficiency.
We want cloud-based
services on the
digitalization roadmap.
In other words
if we do not provide a service from the cloud
we do not want to sign under it.
In this context
naturally, our paths cross a lot
with Microsoft.
If I had to give an example
We have a serious investment in Office 365.
The biggest benefit
is that we moved to a paperless office.
On the other hand, the communication rate has increased.
People were faced with an environment
where they did not have to travel
where they could gather
when necessary
where they could hold meetings
independently of the office
regardless of location
where they could read
meeting notes from anywhere
and where they could securely access
documents as they wished.
We develop software
in our own corporate core business.
We need to use serious software technologies
when writing this software.
By using
Microsoft's Azure platforms there,
we actually realize
serious efficiency.