Golden Horn Shipping and Trading Co. Ltd. was established in 2018 in istanbul Turkey after long year professional experiences in ship building and shipbroking sector.

Mr Serdar Colak is founder of the company and he set the company after his 14 years career in Shipping Sector.

Mr Serdar Colak was born in 1981 in İstanbul, Turkey. He has his bachelor’s degree on Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and he has his master degree on Sea Transportation and Maritime Engineering , both in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with graduation 2004. After his graduation, he worked as a Naval Arhitect and Marine Engineer in ship building Sector in local Turkish shipyards and design companies until 2010 and then he had been working as a ship broker in one of the Turkey’s leading ship brokering company being a snp manager until beginning of 2018 . After he concluded many trasanctions in new building, second hand and demolition, he decided to establish his own company “Golden Horn Shipping and Trading Co. Ltd.”

The name history of Golden Horn (Turkish: Altın Boynuz; Ancient Greek: Χρυσόκερας, Chrysókeras; Latin: Sinus Ceratinus), also known by its modern Turkish name as Haliç, is a major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.

This prominent body of water is a horn-shaped estuary that joins Bosphorus Strait at the immediate point where the strait meets the Sea of Marmara, thus forming a narrow, isolated peninsula, the tip of which is "Old Istanbul" (ancient Byzantium and Constantinople), and the promontory of Sarayburnu, or Seraglio Point. The Golden Horn geographically separates the historic center of Istanbul from the rest of the city, and forms a natural, sheltered harbor that has historically protected Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and other maritime trade ships for thousands of years.

While the reference to a "horn" is understood to refer to the inlet's general shape, the significance of the designation "golden" is more obscure, with historians believing it to refer to either the riches brought into the city through the bustling historic harbor located along its shores, or to romantic artistic interpretations of the rich yellow light blazing upon the estuary's waters as the sun sets over the city. Its Greek and English names mean the same, while its Turkish name, Haliç, simply means "estuary", and is derived from the Arabic word khaleej, meaning "gulf".

Throughout its storied past, the Golden Horn has witnessed many tumultuous historical incidents, and its dramatic vistas have been the subject of countless works of art.