Sefine Shipyard
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Native name | Sefine Tersanesi |
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| Company type | Shipyard |
| Industry | Shipbuilding |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | , Turkey |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Website | sefine |
Sefine Shipyard (Turkish: Sefine Tersanesi) is located in Yalova Province, Turkey. It builds a wide variety of ships, including tugboats, fireboats, passenger/car ferries and well boats.
Sefine Shipyard, which is owned by the Sefine Denizcilik Tersanecilik Turizm A.Ş, a Koloğlu Holding company,[1] was established in 2005. It is located close to the Osman Gazi Bridge in the Shipyards Area of Altınova district in Yalova Province, Turkey. Shipbuilding at the yard started in 2008 and the following year, the construction of a drydock began.[2] Sefine Shipyard covers 140,000 m2 (1,500,000 sq ft) and includes a nearly 11,000 m2 (120,000 sq ft) covered workshop for steel sheet processing, a 160 m × 60 m (520 ft × 200 ft) shipway, a 240 m × 42 m (787 ft × 138 ft) dry dock, a 200 m (660 ft) long quay and a 282 m × 49 m (925 ft × 161 ft) floating dock. The shipyard employs 370 personnel, including around 80 engineers. The workforce varies between 1,500 and over 2,000.[2]
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Sefine Shipyard is capable of processing 40,000 tons of steel sheet annually. In the last ten years, 29 ships have been built at the shipyard, including tugboats, fireboats, salvage tugs for the Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety, an LPG carrier for Italy, car ferries for Estonia and Norway, a 18 MW icebreaker for Russia,[3] and well-boats. Maintenance and repair services are done in dry and floating docks, mostly for domestic ships. Conversions of dry cargo ships to cement carriers is also carried out at the shipyard.[2] In 2015, Sefine Shipyard delivered Turkey's first emergency response vessel, the ERV Nene Hatun to the Directorate General of Coastal Safety.[4]
The shipyard also produces steel construction parts for bridges and viaducts, being part of the construction of the Osman Gazi Bridge and the new Istanbul Airport.[2]
