- Mürsel Karadeniz, Istanbul
Zaman Daily Newspaper-
- The number of operating Turkish shipyards has decreased by 60 percent since 2008, when the global financial crisis started, leading to a possible closing down of the sector.
- The tremendous growth of the Turkish shipbuilding industry began in 2005, when orders increased tenfold, and lasted until 2008, when the shipbuilding sector had reached a total turnover of $3 billion. Due to the global financial crisis that started in 2008 the sector, which was able to build approximately 250 ships per year, has witnessed many cancelled orders ......
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