Even though the Turkish ship industry has increased the number of its shipyards by 62 percent, it transferred 7.5 million dead weight tons of orders to the Far East as all sites are full until 2010

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Enjoying its heyday, the Turkish ship building industry has been having a hard time meeting the high demand. It found the solution by constructing larger vessels in the Far East. While ship owners construct ships with an average of 30,000 dead weight tons (dwt), they have outsourced ship orders to Japan, Korea and China for ships larger than 100,000 dwt between 2007 and 2010. Among those who have placed orders for ships for the Far East are Cengiz Kaptanoglu, Yalçin Sabanci and Mehmet Emin Karamehmet ......
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