Cicek Shipyard at SMM Hamburg

(Hall B4, Stand no 540)

Cicek Shipyard is located in Tuzla Bay, near Istanbul, Turkey. It constructs a wide range of award-winning merchant vessels including bulk carriers, chemical tankers and container ships utilising a Panamax building dock and two slipways.

At SMM, Cicek Shipyard's stand will reflect its versatility, displaying recent ships completed or under construction including IMO II chemical tankers ranging in size from 15,000dwt to 26,000dwt, some of which were built to ice class 1A standards for North European trading; a 1300TEU multipurpose breakbulk/container vessel; and a 58,000dwt Supramax bulk carrier, the largest vessel ever to be built in Turkey.

New at SMM will be the yard's 3,150dwt coastal tanker design, which offers early delivery dates, and its handy-size bulk carrier.

The first 3,150dwt tanker is now under construction and is due for completion shortly as an IMO II chemical tanker. Various versions are available including refined products and bunker tanker options.

To be classed by Bureau Veritas and constructed to meet ice class 1B standards, these ships will be capable of worldwide trading, transporting oil products, chemicals and vegetable, animal and fish oils.

MarineLine coatings have been selected by Çiçek to give the ability to carry a wide range of cargoes while high manoeuvrability is guaranteed by the choice of twin azimuthing propellers and a bow thruster.

Designed in-house, Cicek is launching a 25,000dwt bulk carrier design that it believes will attract strong interest from the market. It features 35-tonne cranes for loading steel coils and to enable larger grabs to be used for grain and other bulk commodities while faster and/or heavier loading is facilitated by increased strengthening on the tank top.

The yard notes that with the ageing profile of the current handysize bulkcarrier fleet, increased environmental safety regulations, the need for faster loading and unloading and stricter cleaning requirements, older vessels will find it harder to find profitable employment. With this new design, flexibility is the key and it has sought to satisfy all current and upcoming requirements, including special notations relating to hull strength and specific cargo requirements.

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