Between 1988 and 1998, Düzgit constructed 20 various size service boats mainly for its own use by renting some shipyards at Tuzla region -today the largest ship construction area of Türkiye. In addition to this, all the annual maintenance and ordinary repairs for these boats under the management have been carried out by the in-house personnel since its establishment back in 1966. The experience made and business contacts gained during this time together with the fully closed shipyard built and owned by the group itself, laid up the foundations for Düzgit Gemi İnşa San. ve Tic. Kol. Şti. at the end of 1997.

REFERENCE PROJECTS               PROSPECTIVE PROJECTS

Competing with the leading ship construction companies in Turkey, the company together with Bora Shipping were the successful bidders for the construction of eight training boats as required by Turkish Navy.

As part of the deal, the company undertook the design, manufacturing and construction of the boats under the approval of both Turkish Lloyd and Turkish Navy, and also provided the necessary harbour & sea trials, together with the basic training of the personnel. As being one of the first private domestic shipyard to secure a contract from the Ministry of Defence, the company successfully delivered all these 29m LOA boats within 24 months, the latest being February 2000.

As of December 2001 Düzgit went into a new 50/50 partnership with Ürkmez Group (Furtrans Denizcilik) under Maks Denizcilik Tic. ve San. A.Ş. for the construction of ships in particular chemical tankers.

In April 2002, Maks has bought an uncompleted hull of a IMO II chemical tanker of 4500dwt (NB 17) at Çeksan Shipyard. Following its completion the vessel was later sold to Dutch clients in May 2003, M/T "Concorde".

Another uncompleted hull of a IMO III chemical tanker of 29500dwt (NB 1434) was purchased from Kherson Shipyard of Ukraine and later towed to Tuzla to complete here and deliver it to Spanish clients in September 2004.

In order to carry out future projects Maks has hired a local shipyard in Tuzla area for 2-5 years starting in May 2003. Following some infrastructure investments on the shipyard construction of an IMO II chemical tanker of 8100dwt (NB 187) started in August 2003.

Later in 2004, Düzgit Group has sold all its shares in Maks and following a re-organisation of activities the Group started its new shipbuilding projects under company Duzgit Gemi Insa A.S.

Besides, Düzgit Gemi İnşa is also continouing with the development of projects for construction of tugboats, Search-And-Rescue boats, sea ambulances, pilot boats, fishing boats, ferries and bunker barges.

As lately Düzgit has carried out some repairs and modifications on the off-shore coal handling platform İSKEN, the hopper self-unloading barges ARKAD 4 & 5, as well as tugboats ARKAD I & II located in İskenderun Bay for account of Oldendorff AS under supervision of Germanischer Lloyd.