Besiktas shipyard

COMPANY PROFILE

2015

Besiktas Shipyard

www.besiktasshipyard.com | +90 226 461 5151

Proven experience in ship building and repairs Editorial: Tim Hands

Built between 2007 and 2009 by the Besiktas Group, one of Turkey’s leading shipping and shipbuilding companies, Besiktas Shipyard is one of the most well established ship building and ship repair yards in the country. With its state-of-the-art facilities, experienced human resources and service oriented company culture, it aims to be one of the most reliable ship building and ship repair yards in Europe.

Boasting one 235 metre long, 40 metre wide dry dock alongside two slightly smaller panamax size floating docks dedicated to repairs and conversions, Besiktas Shipyard has been able to put together a strong and

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experienced team to head up its Ship Repair division, to provide the highest level of performance. The extensive services on offer include dry docking, manoeuvring and berth services and steel renewal works, while the yard also has

at its disposal lay berths, lifting capacities, ship repair tools and equipment - all of them central to the aim of becoming a leading ship repair & conversion shipyard in Europe.

These competitive services

Besiktas Shipyard are geared toward high-profile shipping segments such as offshore ships, oil rigs and gas carriers. This is both high-profile and technically demanding work, which is consistently underpinned by the strong values dictating the division’s operations, which sees an experienced work force strive tirelessly to provide this fast and reliable service for its diverse customer set. The enlisting of permanent contractors means that quality is proven and always in evidence, and all its work refers back to a strong, self-imposed customer orientated mentality.

Established by the renowned maritime services company Besiktas Group, itself founded in the 1960s to provide vessel management to the oil industry, first put to use shipyards’ facilities to begin building vessels in co-operation with a range of subcontractors in the early

2000s. Clearly this proved hugely advantageous for the Group, as it enabled it to build vessels exactly to its own specifications. As shipyard manager Zeki Korkmazgil adds: “At the end of the day, in 2007, the Group had a lot of good men with experience in building and repair and also wanted to own its own shipyard,” and it was inevitable that the beginning of 2007 would see Besiktas building its own shipyard.

TAILOR-MADE SOLUTIONS Besiktas Group had already amassed a portfolio of 21 tankers as project manager and builder of these vessels, before its yard was opened in 2008, having overseen the various aspects of shipbuilding by providing not only the design, equipment, workmanship, but also full contractual responsibilities through its third party facilities. Of these high value and sophisticated

vessels, the majority have been employed by owners in operations worldwide, by such esteemed players as Unitankers Denmark, Groupe Desgagnes Canada, Petromarine France and Unifleet Netherlands, to name but a few.

The provision of these services to such renowned and first class clients, along with having accrued a full awareness of the industry standards thanks to the culture received from the ship management arm of the company, has enabled Besiktas Shipyard to become established as a shipbuilder with an excellent reputation and a solid reference list. Besiktas Shipyard has in recent years concentrated on providing special purpose vessels with tailor made solutions in order to diversify the ship building portfolio, which has seen it focus its building efforts on several key markets in recent times.

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Of these markets, it was contracts from Gas and Heat of Italy which enabled the yard to explore the sophisticated and complex gas focussed arm of shipbuilding, and as Korkmazgil explains, “these are very sophisticated builds carried out in conjunction with our trusted subcontractors.” The successful delivery of four vessels and good cooperation with Gas and Heat allowed the yard to proceed to an even more complex field in the gas segment, with two 9000 cbm Ethylene Carrier vessels delivered to Galata Shipping towards the end of 2013. Also among the targeted areas were the offshore and fishing markets, with Besiktas providing vessels intended to be used by oil major and energy conglomerate LUKOIL in their operations in the Caspian Sea. All of them boast multi-purpose service capabilities in operations under high ice class conditions, including the carrying of various cargoes, rescue, standby and oil recovery functions. During the same period in 2012, the YTTERSTAD fishing company, located in the northern part of Norway, opted to acquire its new flagship from Besiktas Shipyard, a 75 meter long vessel delivered in 2014, with the main purpose of pelagic fishing and pelagic trawl. In a similar vein was the contract with THOR of Faroe Islands, to supply four units of 65 metre Seismic Support Vessels.

An important aspect of Besiktas Shipyard’s plans for further development was its recent sale of a pilot boat, already under construction at its yard, to Sea Eagles Shipping of Hamriyah Port. Sea Eagles Shipping has gained its reputation through providing marine and offshore services to the oil and gas sector, as well as engineering groups, operating from its main office in UAE and two

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branch offices in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Announced at last year’s Seatrade Middle East Maritime, the maritime market place for the Middle East, the steel-made craft measures 17 metres, with capacity for six pilots, 1,500 horsepower and 19 knots maximum speed. Although active in the workboat sector, Besiktas Shipyard has historically been better known for its larger craft, of sizes such as trawlers and fishing vessels, seismic support vessels and LPG carriers.

“The Group had a lot of good men with experience in building and repair and also wanted to own its own shipyard” This workboat arm of the business is however clearly a central focus for Besiktas, with its 2014 tally standing at six vessels, alongside three tugs, two mooring boats and one pilot vessel. This number is expected to rise to between ten and 15 vessels in 2015, while in 2016, it hopes to deliver a 100 metre multi-purpose supply vessel to deep-water operator Myklebust of Norway.

“We recently signed two firm new build contracts with a Canadian owner for two 15,000 dwt bitumen carriers of 130 metres in length,” said Mesih Behkam, a representative of the workboats division at Besiktas told Seatrade Global.

It is the myriad of services that supplements the shipyard’s duo of floating docks and a 235 metre

graving dock that really helps set it apart from its peers. There is a steel fabrication workshop capable of producing 30 tons per day, while a 2.100 square metre storage facility is managed by an online stock program, enabling efficient logistic services and with the monitoring of critical stock levels. Equally impressive are the shipyard’s blasting and tank coating facilities - the painting workshop area boasts the most modern of equipment providing painting, blasting and scraping facilities without falling foul of issues of dust, humidity or temperature.

Step away from the operations area, however, and Besiktas Shipyard again comes into its own. The Shipyard’s offices, meeting and conference rooms and guest rooms allow clients and representatives unprecedented comfort in which to work on site, or one of its 15 rooms for overnight accommodation, offered free of charge during vessel repairs. There is even a large mess room and cafeteria serving breakfast and dinner, and a basketball and football pitch for those break times so necessary to effective productivity, all serving to make this a company with whom dealings are never less than pleasurable.

EXPANSION ON THE HORIZON This is all paving the way nicely for some significant further developments for Besiktas Shipyard, and its intention of leading the market nationally. Perhaps the most significant of these are the expansions planned across its diverse set of workshops, the ten of which are located across a total area of 50 thousand square metres.

These cater for all things mechanical, electrical, insulation and steel, and their housing of everything under one roof means a huge saving in

Besiktas Shipyard otherwise wasted transportation time. The workshops are operated by yard technicians under the watchful eye of project engineers, and extensive machinery such as lathes, balancing equipment and electrical motor ovens enables most repairs to be carried out without even leaving the premises. All of this exemplary work across such a diverse set of operations relates back to a strong and overarching vision: to become a leader in the national market and gain a foothold as a building and repair shipyard in the international market.

However, this is a yard committed to going about its business in the correct way, too, both built and managed with maximum respect to human health, safety and environmental protection. It is, in a sense, a

“It is the myriad of services that supplements the shipyard’s duo of floating docks and a 235 metre graving dock that really helps set it apart from its peers”

collection of examples of the very best practice from all around the world, as Besiktas Shipyard’s safety managers regularly visit several well-established yards in order to improve the safety and environmental practices in use at its own yard. Its receipt of the Outstanding Safety Achievement Award underlines such unwavering commitment to exemplary practice: “The Besiktas Group has managed a complex transition, in a challenging trading geography, while consistently delivering safe operations consistent with the highest standards,” and goes some way to underlining just how expertly the balance between quality and safety has been achieved, as this new yard seeks to establish itself among the greats

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