Steel cut for Turkey's largest

摘要

Cicke shipyard has begun construction of the first of three 58 000dwt Supramax bulk carriers, the largest vessels ever to be built in Turkey. Ordered by the Bayraktar Shipping Group, they will be constructed in the shipbuilder's Panamax-sized building dock, which is currently being extended to 215m and when completed will be 250m long. Cicek Shipyard started construction of the building dock at its Tuzla Bay facility in 1999 but lack of government support resulted in it not being completed until 2006. The first, and still the only such facility in Turkey, it is served by a 300t gantry crane and has already been used to construct four IMO II chemical tankers. Three of these were ice class 1A vessels for Besiktas Shipping, the 18 000dwt Besiktas England and Besiktas Scotland, and the 26 000dwt Besiktas Jutland, while the fourth is a 20 000dwt tanker currently under construction for the Kaptanoglu Group.