Sedef Shipyard () is a Turkish

shipyard A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are shipbuilding, built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Compared to shipyards, which are sometimes m ...

established in Gebze, Kocaeli in 1972. The shipyard moved to

Tuzla, Istanbul Tuzla is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. It has a population of 288,878 (2022) and a land area of 138 km2 . It is on the Asian side of the city next to the municipality of Pendik. Tuzla is on a headland on the coa ...

in 1990. The shipyard is building defense industry ships and commercial ships such as the multipurpose

amphibious assault ship An amphibious assault ship is a type of warship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory during an armed conflict. The design evolved from aircraft carriers converted for use as helicopter carriers (which, as a result, ar ...

to be used by the

Turkish Naval Forces The Turkish Naval Forces (), or Turkish Navy (), is the naval warfare service branch of the TAF. The modern naval traditions and customs of the Turkish Navy can be traced back to 10 July 1920, when it was established as the ''Directorate o ...

. In 2000, the shipyard became a

subsidiary A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company is a company (law), company completely or partially owned or controlled by another company, called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the subsidia ...

of Turkon Holding. The shipyard was qualified in 2009 by obtaining the necessary documents to take part in military projects. In 2013, the company won the tender for a multipurpose amphibious assault ship project, which will be the largest ship in the Turkish Navy and can carry one battalion. Within the scope of this project, the construction of TCG ''Anadolu'' started in 2015 and the ship was launched in 2019. The construction of a

sister ship A sister ship is a ship of the same Ship class, class or of virtually identical design to another ship. Such vessels share a nearly identical hull and superstructure layout, similar size, and roughly comparable features and equipment. They o ...

, to be named , is currently planned by the Turkish Navy.

Location

Sedef Shipbuilding Inc, has 2 main locations in Turkey: *Tuzla, Istanbul *Orhanlı, Istanbul

Products

TCG Anadolu TCG ''Anadolu'' (L-400) is a drone-carrying amphibious assault ship of the Turkish Navy. It is named after the peninsula of Anatolia ( Turkish: ''Anadolu'') which forms the majority of the land mass of Turkey. The construction works began on 30 ...

* MV Arctic Sea * MV Karadeniz Powership Ayşegül Sultan * MV Karadeniz Powership Doğan Bey *

MV Karadeniz Powership Fatmagül Sultan The MV ''Karadeniz Powership Fatmagül Sultan'' is a Liberia-flagged Powership, a floating power plant, owned and operated by Karpowership. Built as a barge, she was converted into a Powership in 2013 at Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey ...

* MV Karadeniz Powership Gökhan Bey * MV Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan * MV Karadeniz Powership Onur Sultan *

MV Karadeniz Powership Orhan Bey MV ''Karadeniz Powership Orhan Bey'' is a power barge, a floating power plant, owned and operated by Karpowership. She was commissioned in 2013, and initially contracted to supply electricity to the power grid in Lebanon. Powership Built in A ...

* MV Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan * MV Karadeniz Powership Yasin Bey * MV Karadeniz Powership Zeynep Sultan

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