Cicek Shipyard

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

Cicek Shipyard started construction of its building dock 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 300 tonne 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.

Cicek is about to start 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 building dock, which is currently being extended to 215m and when completed will be 250m long.

The yard also has a 160m long slipway served by a 200-tonne gantry crane and a smaller slipway suitable for building coastal vessels.

For more information about Cicek, contact davidcheslin@dunelmpr.co.uk