Celik Tekne Shipyard
Çeliktrans Deniz İnşaat Ltd. Şti., trading as Çeliktrans Shipyard, is a Turkish shipbuilding and ship repair yard established in 1958 and located in Tuzla, Istanbul since 1984. The yard builds new vessels up to 5,500 dwt — including fishing vessels, chemical and product tankers, passenger and Ro-Ro ferries, tugs, oil recovery ships, live fish carriers and work barges — and carries out outfitting and repair of vessels up to 90,000 dwt. Services also cover in-house design and steel/pipe modelling, main and auxiliary engine overhauls, re-engining, ship conversion and steel and piping renewals. Deliveries listed on the site include vessels for owners in Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, Romania and Turkey, with more than 60 ships and tugs built since the yard's founding.
Celik Tekne Shipyard (Çeliktrans Shipyard)
Çeliktrans Deniz İnşaat Ltd. Şti. was founded in 1958 on the European side of the Bosporus as a shipbuilding yard with slipways, and relocated to Tuzla, Istanbul in 1984 following government policy to concentrate shipyards in an industrial zone. The yard passed to its present shareholders in 1992 and has since undergone modernisation and investment. According to the company, it has built and delivered 63 different types of ships and tug boats as newbuildings, alongside extensive repair work. Recent hull numbers run to CS58, a fresh fish trawler for Rammi hf. of Iceland reported delivered in July 2024.
Services
- Newbuilding of vessels up to 5,500 dwt
- Outfitting and repair of vessels up to 90,000 dwt
- Main and auxiliary engine overhauls and repairs, engine room modification and re-engining
- Ship conversion, supported by 8 engineers and 300 personnel
- Steel renewals, pipe works, boiler repairs and tube renewals, electrical works, lathe work
- In-house design: steel and pipe modelling, nesting and parts lists, 2D/3D layouts, 3D presentation via Nupas e-browser, launching calculations
Facilities
- Outfitting and repair pier: 80 x 7 m; astern mooring up to 90,000 dwt at 5.30 m draught
- Slipway No. 1: 100 x 15 m, for vessels up to 5,500 dwt
- Workshops 770 sqm, under-slipway workshops 450 sqm, mobile covered area 150 sqm, four-storey 1,747 sqm office building
- Cranes: 90 t and 15 t gantry cranes, 10 t workshop cranes, 5 t pier crane; 1,000 kW transformer station
- Floating working platform/store barge with 7 t crane, mooring boat, service boat, 5 t forklift
- Outsourced access to 2,000 t and 500 t floating cranes and a 300 x 70 m dry dock
Vessel Types
- Purse seine trawlers, fresh fish trawlers, live fish carriers
- Chemical, oil product and bunker tankers
- Passenger ferries and Ro-Ro passenger ships
- Multipurpose ice class tugs, pilot and mooring boats, oil recovery / anti-pollution vessels
- Container and general cargo ships, work barges
Location
- Aydintepe Mah., Güzin Sk. No:19, 34947 Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey
- Tel +90 (216) 392 99 86 · [email protected]