We inspire young women to strive for more,
and demand more from our industry.
We promote the role of women within our industry,
changing women’s attitude to the workplace and
the workplace’s attitude to women.
We are a global network of female professionals,
sharing successes and experiences from across
our industry.
With CILT’s world class educational platform as a
foundation we make change real, combining 21st
Century teaching with 21st Century attitudes.
We aim to create a diversified industry, an equal
society and a world where the workplace is open
to all without prejudice.
We have the vision, the resolve and the capability.
We make change real, turning ideas into actions
and ensuring a better tomorrow starts today.
Our Mission
To promote the status of
women in logistics and transport,
to bring together those who
support talent and career
development of women and to
provide a support network and
mentoring opportunities for
women in the sector.
Our Vision
To be the most sought after
for advocacy, professionalism
and empowerment of women
in supply chain, logistics
and transport.
Our Logo
The WiLAT logo and pin were
designed by Dorothy Chan and
WiLAT supporters in Hong Kong.
The initial letter of ‘W’ for women
is replicated as a flying bird to
signify that women are flexible,
industrious, holistic, strategic
and elegant. Birds are usually
gregarious and work in teams
which is also a core value in the
logistics and transport world.
Dear WiLAT members and friends of WiLAT,
Under the leadership of our dear Founding Chairperson and President of CILT Türkiye Branch Ms.Berna Akyıldız, Wilat Turkiye has completed successful accomplishments in the last 2 years and in a short span of time became the leading organization repsresenting women empowerment in logistics and transportation industry. WiLAT Turkiye continues to grow and getting strongewith new individual and corporate members. I am honored to take over the Chair of WiLAT Turkiye flag from dear Berna Akyıldız. We aim to carry out very successful and highly impactful projects and initiatives with our role model members each of which are more successful than the other in the industry.
The logistics and transportation sector in Turkey is still one of the sectors with the lowest women participation in the workforce. Our efforts as a team will be dedicated to empowering women and achieving gender equality in our industry. We are ready to mobilize all our resources;
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For our young girls to prefer this sector in their university education,
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For our professional women to be resilient to be promoted to C-suite in this sector,
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To Support women entrepreneurs in this sector.
The know-how accumulation, experience and collaboration on best-practice sharing with our WiLAT Global network, which is a great power on a global scale, makes us even stronger to achieve our goals.
As we always believe, we are stronger together !
Esra KIVRAK
WiLAT Türkiye President