It all starts with trying to get the project.
Bringing projects that include technologies used for the first time in the world, each serving different tasks, to the shipyard is an adventure in itself. It takes determination to convince the customer to make such an investment by claiming that technical requirements and customer demands can be made at a competitive price, with appropriate payment terms, at any time.
Then you need to convince the financial institutions so that the project can start.
Many experts from each discipline come together for a single purpose to form a project team, which requires teamwork, empathy, and getting rid of egos.
To build the ship in the field without any problems, it must first be built on paper, which requires serious design and engineering effort.
Connecting the plan of a journey that will take 2-3 years, in thousands of lines, also makes one think about how old I will be when the project is finished.
Buying, transporting, storing, and organizing innumerable materials and equipment in appropriate conditions is tiring even when talking about it.
Splitting tons of steel sheets into thousands of pieces, bending, twisting, and reassembling them into a ship is the part of the puzzle that takes the most man-hours.
You always look for suitable conditions to paint somewhere on the ship, regardless of rain – mud, hot – cold.
For all systems to be a whole and work in harmony; kilometers of cables are pulled on the ship one by one, and tons of pipes are manufactured and assembled. Every equipment and system put into use gives life to the ship as if it were a vein in our body. And in the end, all systems become a whole and work in harmony…
For each item to be done according to the rules, you test many materials and equipment used on the ship in the factory, it is not enough! You test it on the dock, it’s not enough! Whatever you have at the end, you can test it again at sea.
Engineering and aesthetic concerns must be combined to offer comfortable living conditions in which the crew will find the ship more comfortable than their home and more comfortable than a hotel in difficult sea conditions.
While all this is going on, many hidden heroes work devotedly behind the scenes from your infrastructure, security, accounting, human resources, and food to cleaning.
And ensuring the occupational health and safety of all the heroes of this journey is at the forefront of everything.
Despite the market conditions, which go up and down like a sine wave, trap moisture from everything, pandemic conditions that will coincide once in 100 years, many crises, and negative conditions, we are proud to deliver another ship with the sheer brow. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to any stage of the project that I have mentioned above, who has given their heart to this job and believed in it.
Our beautiful daughter NB71 Lauren, the 82nd ship delivered by Cemre Shipyard, has been delivered and she is on her way to her hometown. May it be good for all of us, may it bring a lot of profit to your company, its BOW is NETA.