The yacht manufacturing facility, whose construction activities have started in Aliağa, will be the second largest yacht building center in Europe after Spain.
The yacht shipyard, the construction of which has started in Aliağa and will be completed in less than 3 years, will be one of the locomotive forces of the regional economy. Emin Akbaşoğlu, Chairman of the Yacht and Boat Manufacturers Industry Collective Workplace Building Cooperative (YATEK), said, “We will employ 6 thousand people in the region in the first stage.”.
The yacht shipyard, which will be completed with an investment of 150 million euros in Aliağa district of Izmir, will make a significant contribution to the regional economy.
Emin Akbaşoğlu, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yacht and Boat Manufacturers Industry Collective Workplace Building Cooperative (YATEK) and also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Akbaşoğlu Holding, gave information to Yeni Asır Newspaper about the details of the project.
“We tried to serve YATEK, which is a project of Turkey, to create added value, and we focused on success,” Akbaşoğlu said, summarizing the purpose of YATEK's establishment with the following words:
The main purpose of the Yacht and Boat Manufacturers Industry Collective Workplace Building Cooperative, YATEK, is to gather the scattered boat manufacturers and sub-industry within its structure and to create space, marketing, exhibition, training and social facilities for them.
The main target is exports
Stating that YATEK has been working for 15 years to bring together yacht and boat manufacturers scattered in various parts of Turkey in a facility with the necessary infrastructure and equipped with modern facilities, Emin Akbaşoğlu, Chairman of YATEK Board of Directors, In line with this purpose, he said that the Ministry allocated the 1200-acre Hacı Ahmet Ağa Bay in Aliağa Çaltılıdere to YATEK for this purpose. Explaining that the facility in the region will be completed within 3 years and 86 large and small workshops will operate within the facility, Akbaşoğlu emphasized that the main target of the work in the facility is export.
Europe's second largest yacht production facility
Stating that Turkey ranks 4th in yacht and boat manufacturing today, Akbaşoğlu said that they aim to generate 1 billion dollars in annual yacht export revenues with the works to be carried out in the facility to be established and added: ’We will establish the largest yacht shipyard in Turkey and the second largest yacht shipyard in Europe and the Mediterranean after Spain. Technologically, we will be the first and the most modern. With advanced technology and equipment, we will produce high-performance, compact and world-class luxury mega yachts up to 125 meters. Turkey's yacht and boat industry, whose economic size has reached 5.5-6 billion dollars, is growing by 20 percent every year and strengthening its position in the world. We are currently ranked 4th in the world as a country. Our aim is to increase Turkey's annual yacht exports to one billion dollars per year.”.
An environmentally friendly facility will be built
Stating that the facility to be established will be an extremely environmentally friendly and social facility with chimneyless production, Emin Akbaşoğlu continued his statements with the following statements:
YATEK will be a closed, smokeless production facility, and we will also build social facilities, kindergartens and training areas. Our shipyard will be an environmentally sensitive enterprise that has no problems with the environment. We will be a factory without chimneys, production will be indoors, we will install advanced and modern filtration systems. We will dispose of our own waste. We will build a completely environmentally friendly facility.
Approximately 6,000 people will be employed in the first phase and we will procure this labor force from the immediate vicinity. Yacht manufacturing is a labor-intensive sector and about 40 percent of the cost is labor cost. We recommend the young people of our region to attend vocational schools and courses related to maritime and boat manufacturing. When our project is completed, our members will become members of the chambers and NGO organizations of the region and will meet their needs from the region.
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