Besiktas Shipyard
Besiktas Group has concentrated on building high value ships since 2001 and has cooperated with Swedish tanker owners to design Ice Class 1A tankers.
  • Tanker
  • Container Ship
  • General Cargo Ship
  • Bulk Carrier
  • Tug/Workboat
  • OSV/PSV/AHTS
  • LNG/LPG Carrier
  • Design
  • Planning
  • Production
  • Resources
  • Technology
In the Besiktas Shipyard, the first steel cutting for four 4100 dwt Imo II took place in 2008 and their deliveries were in 2009. The capacity of the facility is building 7 ships up to 30.000 dwt per year.

Before building Besiktas Shipyard, Besiktas Group has built (as builder) 21 tankers up to 26.000 dwt for well known shipowners such as Unitankers Denmark, Veritas Rederi Sweden, Sirius Rederi Sweden, Vaderotank Sweden, Groupe Desgagnes Canada, Petromarine France, Socatra France, Prime Commercial Management Sweden, Unifleet Netherlands.

Having also successful cooperation with Swedish tanker owners in designing and building Ice Class 1A tankers, Besiktas Shipyard has been concentrated in building high value and sophisticated ships.

Currently the yard

has the following 14

newbuilding projects:

10 x 7100 dwt sea river type tankers for Palmali Shipping
Azerbaijan-Turkey. Deliveries of these ships will be completed by the end of 2012.

4 x 3300 cbm semi refrigerated LPG carriers for Gas & Heat Co. Italy. In 2009, Gas & Heat Co. Italy granted Besiktas Shipyard the contract to build 4 x 3300 cbm semi refrigerated LPG tankers.

The project is successfully managed by Besiktas Shipyard and the first 4 ships were completed 2 months earlier than the agreed delivery dates.

Besiktas Shipyard continuously aims to improve its reputation of a high qualified and reliable newbuilding and ship repair yard in Europe.