Anadolu Shipyard ( tr, Anadolu Deniz İnşaat Kızakları San. ve Tic. A.Ş.) (ADİK) is a Turkish shipyard located in

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. The shipyard mostly builds amphibious warfare ships as part of the defense industry.

History

Anadolu Shipyard was founded in the early 1950s. The company was initially active at Haliç Taşkızak in

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, Istanbul. In 1982, the shipyard moved to Tuzla, a district in the east of Istanbul. By December 2004, the company had been taken over by Furtrans Shipping, which was about to construct a shipyard in

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. In 2005, Anadolu Shipyard and

Sedef Shipyard Sedef Shipyard ( tr, Sedef Tersanesi) is a Turkish shipyard established in Gebze, Kocaeli in 1972. Shipyard moved to Tuzla, Istanbul in 1990. The shipyard is building defense industry ships and commercial ships such as the multi-purpose amphib ...

established a joint venture with the TAIS Shipyards Company at

with the purpose of building, repairing and maintaining naval ships of the

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. The shipyard in Yalova has four shipways covering of the shipyard area.

Overview

Anadolu Shipyard is situated on the Tersaneler Cad. 22 in

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. In the beginning, the company built sailing yachts such as the -long ''Fortuna Blue'' in 1989, the -long ''Ofelia'' in 2000 and the -long ''Handem'' in 2002. The shipyard has two shipways measuring and . Ships can be built up to long and 17,000 DWT on one shipway, and of long and 7,350 DWT at the other shipway. There are two quays measuring for ships up to 7,500 DWT and for ships up to 20,000 DWT. The shipyard is capable of building advanced

amphibious warfare ship An amphibious warfare ship (or amphib) is an amphibious vehicle warship employed to land and support ground forces, such as marines, on enemy territory during an amphibious assault. Specialized shipping can be divided into two types, most crud ...

s in lengths between and . The production program covers small-sized

Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel A Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel or Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) is any of a variety of amphibious landing craft designed to transport troops or armoured vehicles from ship to shore during amphibious landings. United Kingdom The desi ...

s (LCVP), middle-size

Landing Craft Mechanized The landing craft mechanized (LCM) is a landing craft designed for carrying vehicles. They came to prominence during the Second World War when they were used to land troops or tanks during Allied amphibious assaults. Variants There was no ...

s (LCM),

Landing Craft Tank The Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) (or Tank Landing Craft TLC) was an amphibious assault craft for landing tanks on beachheads. They were initially developed by the Royal Navy and later by the United States Navy during World War II in a series of ver ...

s (LCT),

Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for ships first developed during World War II (1939–1945) to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto shore with ...

s (LST) and

Landing helicopter dock A landing helicopter dock (LHD) is a multipurpose amphibious assault ship which is capable of operating helicopters and has a well deck. The United States Navy (USN) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) use the term as a hull classification symbo ...

s (LHD). Other ship designs include

Offshore Patrol Vessel A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval ship, naval vessel generally designed for Coastal defence and fortification, coastal defence, Border control, border security, or law ...

s (OPV) of lengths ,

Fast attack craft A fast attack craft (FAC) is a small, fast, agile, offensive, often affordable warship armed with anti-ship missiles, gun or torpedoes. FACs are usually operated in close proximity to land as they lack both the seakeeping and all-round defensive ...

s (FAC) and

Landing Platform Dock An amphibious transport dock, also called a landing platform dock (LPD), is an amphibious warfare ship, a warship that embarks, transports, and lands elements of a landing force for expeditionary warfare missions. Several navies currently operat ...

s (LPD). The shipyard is able to simultaneously build up to six vessels. The company employs between 25 and 30 retired Turkish Navy personnel, including retired admirals and captains.

Ships for the Turkish Navy

TCG Bayraktar (L-403) in Valletta harbor

In 2008, the company entered the defense industry with a project to build LCTs. Project planning for eight -long LCTs was accomplished in 2009 and the first ships were laid down in early 2010. All eight vessels were built and handed over to the Turkish Navy by 2012. These vessels are still the world's fastest in their class. In July 2012, the , a 150-class LST with 1,040 tons displacement set a speed record of during sea trials in

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despite high seas. The shipyard delivered the -long ''Bayraktar''-class LSTs that was launched in 2015 and commissioned in 2017, and that was launched in 2016 and commissioned in 2018 to the Turkish Navy.

Export

In October 2020,the -long ''Al Doha'' (QTS-91) of the

Qatari Emiri Navy The Qatari Emiri Navy (Arabic: البحرية الأميري القطرية romanized: ''Al-Bahriyah Al-Amiriyah Al-Qatariyah'') (QEN), also called the Qatari Emiri Naval Forces (QENF), is the naval branch of the armed forces of the State of Qatar ...

, the first of the two armed Cadet Training Ships that were ordered in 2018, was launched. The first of two -long LCMs for the Qatari Emiri Navy was laid down in 2021.

Technology transfer

In 2020, India's state-owned

Hindustan Shipyard Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) is a shipyard located in Visakhapatnam on the east coast of India. History Founded as the ''Scindia Shipyard'', it was built by industrialist Walchand Hirachand as a part of The Scindia Steam Navigation Company ...

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signed a contract with Anadolu Shipyard for a technology transfer project despite concerns that emerged in India in 2019 that Indian-rival and Turkey-friendly Pakistan could prevent such a defense-industry-related business relationship. The project was valued at Rs 10,000

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– between US$1.5 and 2.0 billion – and aims to build five

HSL-class fleet support ship The HSL-class fleet support vessels are a series of five fleet tanker planned to be built by Hindustan Shipyard (HSL), Visakhapatnam for the Indian Navy. The deal was signed on 25 August 2023 with an expected project completion timeline of 8 yea ...

s, each of 45,000 DWT, for the

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by the Indian shipyard. The technology transfer provides for the preparation of specifications, planning and engineering services.

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