Sefine Shipyard ( tr, Sefine Tersanesi) is located in

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, Turkey. It builds a wide variety of ships including tugboats, fireboats, passenger/car ferries and well boats.

Overview

Sefine Shipyard, which is owned by the Sefine Denizcilik Tersanecilik Turizm A.Ş, a Koloğlu Holding company, was established in 2005. It is located close to the

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in the Shipyards Area of

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district in

, Turkey. Shipbuilding at the yard started in 2008 and the following year, the construction of a

drydock A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...

began. Sefine Shipyard covers and includes a nearly covered workshop for steel sheet processing, a shipway, a dry dock, a long quay and a floating dock. The shipyard employs 370 personnel, including around 80 engineers. The workforce varies between 1,500 and over 2,000.

Production

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

tugboat A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line. These boats typically tug ships in circumstances where they cannot or should not move under their own power, su ...

fireboat A fireboat or fire-float is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were tugboats, retrofitted with firefighting equipme ...

salvage tug A salvage tug, known also historically as a wrecking tug, is a specialized type of tugboat that is used to rescue ships that are in distress or in danger of sinking, or to salvage ships that have already sunk or run aground. Overview Few tugbo ...

s for the Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety, an

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for Italy, car ferries for Estonia and Norway, a 18 MW

icebreaker An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ships, it may also refer to smaller ...

for Russia, and well-boats. Maintenance and repair services are done in dry and floating docks, mostly for domestic ships. Conversions of

dry cargo ship A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo — such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement — in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrier was built in 1852, econom ...

s to cement carriers is also carried out at the shipyard. In 2015, Sefine Shipyard delivered Turkey's first emergency response vessel the ERV ''Nene Hatun'' to the Directorate General of Coastal Safety. The shipyard also produces steel construction parts for bridges and viaducts, being part of the construction of the Osman Gazi Bridge and the new

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Export business

Leiger at Quay - Preparation for Ship Christening in Port of Tallinn 16 December 2016

The 2014-ordered passenger/vehicle ferries MF ''Leiger and'' MF ''Tiiu'' of the Estonian

TS Laevad ''TS Laevad'' ("TS Ships") is an Estonian ferry company which operates two routes between the Estonian mainland and the islands of Hiiumaa and Muhu in the Baltic Sea. (Muhu is connected by a causeway to Estonia's largest island, Saaremaa). The ...

were built in 2016. The MF ''Estonia 2016'', a -long ferry with a capacity of 600 passengers and 150 vehicles, was built for the

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. The -long ferry MF ''Sildafjord'' of the Norwegian Fjord1 ASA, which can carry 299 passengers and 83 vehicles, was launched in July 2019, and delivered in May 2020. Two more ferries, the MF ''Florøy'' and MF ''Hillefjord'', were delivered to Fjord1 ASA early 2020. In January 2021, the shipyard delivered the -long well-boat ''Aqua Skye'', a fishing boat with the capability to store live fish and transport them, to the Norwegian DESS Aquaculture Shipping. The -long well-boat ''Gåsø Høvding'' of the Norvegian Frøy was launched in January 2021. The approximately -long 4.3 MW hybrid electric ferry MF ''Bastø Electric '' of the Norwegian Bastø Fosen, which can carry 600 passengers and 200 vehicles, was delivered in February 2021; it is an environmentally friendly ship with

zero emission Zero emission refers to an engine, motor, process, or other energy source, that emits no waste products that pollute the environment or disrupt the climate. Zero emission engines Vehicles and other mobile machinery used for transport (over land, s ...

s. In March 2021, another hybrid electric ferry of Bastø Fosen, the -long MF ''Svelvik'' for 100 passengers and 30 vehicles, was launched. In 2021, the shipyard was awarded an order by the Italian Caronte and Tourist to build a -long SOLAS-compatible 8,300 GT

LNG Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volu ...

hybrid

ro-pax Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, Trailer (vehicle), trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their o ...

ferry for 800 passengers and crew and 114 vehicles.

Gallery

File:9850733 Sildafjord 2020.jpg, MF ''Sildafjord'' serving in

Hardangerfjord The Hardangerfjord ( en, Hardanger Fjord) is the fifth longest fjord in the world, and the second longest fjord in Norway. It is located in Vestland county in the Hardanger region. The fjord stretches from the Atlantic Ocean into the mountai ...

, Norway (April 2021) File:Florøy.jpg, MF ''Florøy'' serving between Skjersholmane and Ranavik, Norway (February 2020) File:9850719 Hillefjord 2019.jpg, MF ''Hillefjord'' serving Korsfjorden, Norway (December 2019) File:Bastø Electric.jpg, MF ''Bastø Electric'' serving in Horten, Norway (July 2021)

References

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