Problem

Turkey’s road-freight market is large but highly fragmented and operationally manual: it has roughly 850,000 independent truckers, a stated $73 billion logistics market, and SME fleets controlling about 90–95% of trucking. Freight booking and coordination traditionally depend on numerous phone calls, emails, and face-to-face conversations, creating slow matching, limited visibility, administrative overhead, and uncertainty over capacity and pricing.

The clearest use case is a large shipper that needs recurring full-truckload capacity on multiple lanes, while carriers need profitable loads—especially return or “backhaul” loads—to reduce empty mileage. Kamion’s materials position faster return-load matching as an economic and environmental benefit, reporting a 70% faster return-load rate and reduced carbon emissions.

Product / Service

Kamion is a technology-enabled freight forwarder and digital marketplace focused on full-truckload road freight. It connects businesses seeking trucks with small trucking companies and owner-operators seeking loads, serving as a single logistics provider rather than merely listing freight. For enterprise customers, it specializes in contract logistics and controls the process end to end, from tenders through invoicing.

Its software, data, and operational workflows automate or streamline load matching, pricing, shipment tracking, document handling, invoicing, and payments. Shippers receive lower-cost access to vetted capacity, guaranteed capacity, on-time delivery support, freight insurance, and supply-chain visibility; carriers use a free mobile app to filter nearby or compatible loads, find backhauls, and receive load notifications based on location and vehicle type.

Market

Kamion competes in Turkish and regional logistics technology, digital freight forwarding, contract logistics, and B2B full-truckload transportation. The competitive set includes incumbent freight forwarders and the fragmented phone-and-email brokerage processes Kamion is digitizing; the available company materials do not identify a specific named direct competitor. Its stated expansion path includes cross-border freight and adjacent verticals beyond Turkey’s domestic market.

The company shows commercial traction rather than appearing to be a pre-launch concept. Its official materials report more than 200 clients, over 20,000 carriers, and a 70% faster return-load rate; the carrier product also advertises tens of thousands of loads in the app each day. Kamion was founded in 2020, expanded to five major Turkish cities in 2021, joined Y Combinator’s 2022 batch, and raised a reported $2 million seed round in December 2022. Publicly retrieved sources do not disclose revenue, so its exact revenue stage and profitability cannot be determined.