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Sefine Shipyard ( tr, Sefine Tersanesi) is located in Yalova Province, 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 Osman Gazi Bridge in the Shipyards Area of Altınova district in Yalova Province, 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
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, 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 ...
s,
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s, salvage tugs for the Turkish
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, an LPG carrier for Italy, car ferries for Estonia and Norway, a 18 MW
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for Russia, and well-boats. Maintenance and repair services are done in dry and floating docks, mostly for domestic ships. Conversions of dry cargo ships 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

The 2014-ordered passenger/vehicle ferries MF ''Leiger and'' MF ''Tiiu'' of the Estonian
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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
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ship with zero emissions. 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
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to build a -long SOLAS-compatible 8,300 GT
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hybrid ro-pax ferry for 800 passengers and crew and 114 vehicles.


Gallery

File:9850733 Sildafjord 2020.jpg, MF ''Sildafjord'' serving in Hardangerfjord, 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
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, Norway (July 2021)


References

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Daily Sabah The ''Daily Sabah'' (lit. "Daily Morning") is a Turkish pro-government daily, published in Turkey. Available in English, Arabic, and owned by Turkuvaz Media Group, ''Daily Sabah'' published its first issue on 24 February 2014. The editor-in-chief ...
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Milliyet ''Milliyet'' (Turkish for "''nationality''") is a Turkish daily newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey. History and profile ''Milliyet'' came to publishing life at the Nuri Akça press in Babıali, Istanbul as a daily private newspaper on 3 Ma ...
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Anadolu News Agency Anadolu Agency ( tr, Anadolu Ajansı, ; abbreviated AA) is a state-run news agency headquartered in Ankara, Turkey. History The Anadolu Agency was founded in 1920 during the Turkish War of Independence by the order of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. ...
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, title=Estonya adaları için Türk feribotlar devrede , date=20 October 2016 , language=tr , accessdate=11 August 2021
{{cite web , url=https://www.norwegianshipdesign.no/archive/new-electric-ferry-for-svelvik-verket , publisher=Norwegian Ship Design , title=New electric ferry for Svelvik-Verket , date=3 April 2020 , accessdate=11 August 2021 {{cite news , url=https://www.denizbulten.com/haber-sefine-svelvik-i-denize-indirdi-33950.html , newspaper=Deniz Bülten , title=Sefine, Svelvik'i denize indirdi , date=15 March 2021 , language=tr , accessdate=11 August 2021 {{cite news , url=https://www.denizbulten.com/haber-sefine-tersanesi-canli-balik-tasima-gemisi-aqua-skye-yi-teslim-etti-33252.html , newspaper=Deniz Bülten , title=Sefine Tersanesi canlı balık taşıma gemisi aqua skye'yi teslim etti , date=11 January 2021 , language=tr , accessdate=11 August 2021 {{cite web , url=https://www.dessaqua.com/aqua-maly-1/aqua-maly-3ry67-76lcr-fz7c5-8g24n-9zsat-ssgw7 , publisher=DESS Aquaculture Shipping , title=Aqua Skye , accessdate=11 August 2021 {{cite news , url=https://maritimt.com/nb/batomtaler/sildafjord-072020 , newspaper=Maritimt Magasin , title=Sildafjord (07/2020) , date=30 June 2020 , language=no , accessdate=12 August 2021 {{cite web , url=https://www.turkishexportal.com/Port-Of-Tallinn-Sefine-Shipyard-Nb27-Car-Passenger-Ferry-Estonia-2016_SP8F3E_a5e58ad2a6144838aa7fb4622fb35eec , publisher=Turkish Exportal , title=Port Of Tallinn / Sefine Shipyard Nb27 Car & Passenger Ferry Estonia 2016 Turkish companies established in 2005 Shipyards of Turkey Buildings and structures in Yalova Province Altınova