Tag: Turkiye

ClassNK has issued a Statement of Compliance to a ship recycling facility in Izmir, Turkey, verifying that the facilities are in line with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009. This marks the first time a SoC has been issued to ship recycling facilities in Turkey.

Russian Gazprom announced that it started laying the TurkStream gas pipeline in the deep-water area off the coast of Anapa. TurkStream is the project for a transit-free export gas pipeline stretching across the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey. Each of the two strings of the gas pipeline will have a throughput capacity of 15.75 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

Desgagnés has taken delivery of the M/T Damia Desgagnés, a new vessel recently completed in Turkey. The vessel is the first dual-fuel powered Canadian-flagged tanker and the first-ever asphalt carrier of this type, build according to an original concept developed by Desgagnés and ordered at the Besiktas shipyard located in Turkey.

Turkey is the sixth country to ratify the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, following Norway, Congo, France, Belgium and Panama. It has been reported that also Denmark plans to ratify the Convention within 2017.

Rolls-Royce recently announced that they will supply MTU diesel engines for six new search and rescue vessels to be built by Damen Shipyards and operated by the Turkish Coastguard.

In Turkish waters, environmental protection is developing and significant fines are applicable to vessels that violate Turkish anti-pollution regulations in accordance with the Turkish Environmental Code. The Metropole Maritime & Trading Ltd. Co. issued recommendations on the foresaid updated fines.

South Stream Transport B.V. has awarded the Swiss-based Allseas Group S.A. a contract to lay the first line of the TurkStream offshore gas pipeline in the Black Sea, with an option for laying the second line.

Shipping’s unique role in providing most of everything that the world’s people need and want was once again the focus for an international audience, as Turkey hosted the 2016 World Maritime Day Parallel Event through 4-6 November.

Damen has signed a contract with the International Organisation for Migration in Ankara, Turkey for the supply of six Search and Rescue (SAR) vessels for delivery in 2017. The boats are being financed by the European Union and will be operated by the Turkish Coastguard, to support the refugees and migrants rescue operations.

The Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) will soon house Turkey’s debut marine techno-city to be established near the university’s faculty of maritime studies. Planned to be exclusively designed for marine technologies, the techno-city will be the university’s second techno-city after the İTÜ Arı Teknokent.