The Advanced Polymer Coatings MarineLINE® Team headed to Turkey in mid-November, and the result was a banner week's worth of new contracts. Global Marine Manager Captain Onur Yildirim, Turkish Marine Manager Captain Koray Karagoz, and APC's VP of Sales and Marketing, Matt Sokol, are pictured below alongside the host of new deal activity.
Akbasoglu Shipping
Established in 1972, Akbasoglu Shipping operates a modern and young fleet of regional and coastal tankers providing safe, reliable, high-quality transportation services to the world's leading chemical manufacturers and oil majors. They currently have 6 MarineLINE® coated vessels within their fleet. The contract will see a new building project coated with MarineLINE® at Pendik Navy Shipyard. This project is slated to start in January 2023.
Pictured alongside APC representation are Kemal Akbasoglu, Managing Director of the Company, and Kerem Akbasoglu, Co-Director of the Company.
Swan Tankers
Established in 2009, Swan tankers offers technical and commercial management and consultancy service to chemical, oil, and petroleum products traders, storage terminal operators, and ship owners involved in these specific trades. Swan Tankers belongs to the Sanmar Group of Companies, one of the largest tugboat producers in the World. The contract sees APC re-coat the beautiful, 2009-built M/T İpek-S.
Pictured alongside APC representation are Captain Abdullah Kuğu, General Manager of Swan Tankers, and Hakan Tunç, Purchasing Manager of Sanmar Group.
Okanoğulları Shipping
Okanoğulları Shipping has been around since the 1930s; they formally established their company in 1990 and were one of the first customers to coat MarineLINE® in their cargo tanks in Turkey in 2006. This contract will see MarineLINE® applied on a 10500 dwt newbuild project with Okanogulları Shipping, making it their 5th MarineLINE®-coated vessel. This project is set to commence in early 2023.
Düzgit Shipping
Düzgit Ship Management, established in 2012, is the proud owner and management of 5 vessels M/T "DUZGIT VENTURE," M/T "DUZGIT HARMONY," M/T "DUZGIT INTEGRITY," M/T "DUZGIT DIGNITY," and M/T "DUZGIT ENDEAVOUR" which is the eye of this new deal activity. All 5 vessels are coated with the MarineLINE® Coating System. The 2013-built M/T Endeavour will be recoated with MarineLINE® early 2023.
