Turkey’s increasing role in specialised newbuilding projects as tanker deals have dwindled was highlighted this week with an order at Tersan Shipyard.
The yard at Yalova, in the north-west of the country, announced it had signed a contract to build the hull of a 120-metre krill trawler worth more than NOK 1bn ($113m) for Norwegian fish processing company Rimfrost.
The rest of the high-tech vessel will be built by Norway’s Westcon Yards and other outfits from the Norwegian maritime cluster at Sunnmore.
