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Annual Report 2016 ANNUAL REPORT To become great; you will not compliment anybody, you will not deceive anybody, you will see whatever the real goal is for the country and walk to that destination. Everybody will be against you; everybody will try to throw you off the track. However, you will resist them, they will put endless obstacles in front of you as well. You will overcome these obstacles accounting yourself little, not great, weak, toolless, nothing and believing that no one will help you. CONTENTS 04 ABOUT US 06 08 BOARD OF TRUSTEES HEAD OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES Cem MELİKOĞLU 10 GENERAL MANAGER Alper ERALP 14 MARITIME SECTOR 44 76 INDUSTRY AND CERTIFICATION SECTOR TRAINING SERVICES 84 TURK LOYDU FOUNDATION’S ACTIVITIES ABOUT US Turk Loydu Health, Security, Environment and Quality Policy Türk Loydu is committed to; • Ensuring independence, impartiality, confidentiality and reliability, • Complying with “Türk Loydu Code of Ethics”, • Delivering services in accordance with applicable legislation, rules, standards as well as the terms and conditions specified by customers, • Contributing to safety of life and property and environmental protection by means of the rules developed and services performed, • Maintaining its national and international recognitions in compliance with Health, Safety, Environment and Quality standards, • Ensuring customer satisfaction by offering on-time and equally accessible service to all customers according to their expectations, • Ensuring effective training and qualification system to maintain a high level of technical personnel, Our Vision • Managing of risks associated with service processes, • Providing a healthy and safe environment and To become the first preferred international classification adequate resources to personnel in order to prevent and certification society that powered by powered by injuries, ill health and to ensure their safety, its own rules and knowledge and expertise. • Requiring that adequate resources are provided by customers to allow work to be undertaken safely, • Giving its personnel the right and responsibility to Our Mission refuse to conduct work in cases endangering their health and safety, until it is safe to do so, To provide conformity assessment services in the field • Providing a high level of occupational safety and health of safety of life, property and environment in line with and environment protection awareness to personnel, our principles. • Ensuring that environmental impacts of activities carried out are evaluated and adverse effects are minimised and environment is protected, Our Values • Use of resources sustainably, • 15. And continually improving the effectiveness of Independence and Objectivity, its HSEQ performance, through suitable performance Honesty and reliability, indicators and objectives by performing periodical Continuous improvement, reviews. Generating and sharing the knowledge, Customer-driven and qualified service, Esteem for its personnel 04 TURK LOYDU FOUNDATION BOARD OF TURK LOYDU FOUNDATION ECONOMIC TRUSTEES ENTERPRISE EXECUTIVE BOARD Head of Board of Trustees Head of the Executive Board M. Cem MELİKOĞLU M. Cem MELİKOĞLU Deputy Head Deputy Head Atilla ÇİFTÇİGÜZELİ Mehmet Atilla OKSAY Treasurer Board Members Halim METE Ass.Prof.Dr. Serhan GÖKÇAY Alper ERALP Board Members Ayfer ADIGÜZEL Erdal GEDİKOĞLU Kaan TUNÇELLİ Lütfü SAVAŞKAN Sevgi UNAN Mehmet Atilla OKSAY Ass.Prof.Dr. Serhan GÖKÇAY Audit Committee Ali ÖNDER Derya TURGUT İsmail YALÇIN 05 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Head of Board of Trustees Cem MELİKOĞLU Born in 1964. Graduated from ITU, Faculty of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in 1988. After working at positions as regional manager for EMEA for ExxonMobil Company for more than 21 years, he worked at senior executive positions for OMV Petrol Ofisi and in TANAP Projects. Cem Melikoglu, who is a graduate of Private Alman High School, has a good command of German and English and has two children. Deputy Head Treasurer Atilla ÇİFTÇİGÜZELİ Halim METE Born in 1951. Graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Born in 1948. He completed his higher education at Istanbul Maritime Faculty (Higher Maritime School) in 1974-1975 University, The School of Economics. He is Chairman term. He worked as expert surveyor for Turk Loydu of Mete Kardeşler Şirketler Grubu and shareholder of between 1988 and 1996. He is one of the founders of around 15 companies within and outside of the group. He Defav Foundation, and he took the chair as President has been actively taking roles in the Board of TOBB (the between 2002 and 2004. From 1996 to present, he is Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) Chairman of Executive Committee at SNR Holding and and numerous organizations. He is married and has three İstanbul Shipyard. He is married and has two children. children and five grandchildren. Board Member Board Member Kaan TUNÇELLİ Erdal GEDİKOĞLU Born in 1971. Graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Born in 1970. Graduated as Naval Architect and Marine Faculty of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in Engineer from ITU in 1992. He specialized in naval 1993. He worked for private shipyards in Tuzla Shipyards architecture, classification and ship management. He Region until the end of 1994, and he has continued working worked at senior manager positions for various domestic for DOP Ltd. Şti of which he is shareholder since the end of and foreign companies. He has taken part in establishment 1994. He is married and has a daughter. and development of Turkey branch of RINA. He speaks English and Italian. He is married and has a child. 06 Board Member Board Member Lütfü SAVAŞKAN Sevgi UNAN Born in 1965. Graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Born in 1975. Graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty Faculty of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in of Management in 1996. In 1998, she has completed 1986. In 1987, he studied at Vienna Technical University, International Management at the Graduate School of thereafter took master degree at Sabancı University, Business Management and Economics which stands in the same Management for Executives. After serving for Germanischer place. In 1999, she started her career working as Assistant Lloyd for 10 years, he worked as General Manager and Expert at Insurance Association of Turkey. From 2015 to Member of Executive Committees for Marmara Shipyard, present, she has been working as Coordinator at the same Transal Shipping, Dearsan Shipyard, Dearsan Defence organization. She is married and has two children. Companies. He is still Board Member at Altinbas Group. He is married and has a child. Board Member Board Member Mehmet Atilla OKSAY Asst. Prof. Dr. Serhan GÖKÇAY Born in 1972. Graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Born in 1979. Graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Political Sciences, Department of Business in 1994. Mr. Oksay Faculty of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in in who started his career working as researcher at Insurance 2001. He achieved his Doctorate degree at İTÜ Graduate Association of Turkey, also worked as Expert, Deputy Head School of Science, Engineering and Technology in 2012. of Technical Group, Director of Technical Department Between 2009 and 2012, he has been in the position of Rule within the organization. Mr. Oksay who was nominated Development Engineer at Turk Loydu. By year 2014, he has as Deputy Secretary General of Insurance Association of been working as Technical Manager for a partner company Turkey in 2011 also continues his duties as Board Member which is located at Teknopark Istanbul. By year 2015, he has at Turk Loydu Board of Trustees, Turkish Motor Insurers’ been working as Academician at T.C. Piri Reis University, Bureau Board of Directors, OSEM Certification AŞ Board of Faculty of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He Directors. He is married and has a child. has a good command of English. He is married and has two children. 07 “ As Türk Loydu, we have continued our development during 2016 and have not compromised our strategic development goals that we identified at the beginning of the year.” Turk Loydu maintains its development and progress The year 2016 was a year that we witnessed many changes and transformations in the political, economic and cultural aspects of Turkey and unfortunately struggled with many problems at the same time. Traitor attacks by the members of terrorist groups, political instability in Middle East, various immigrant problems and the coup attempt undergone in July 15 no doubt negatively affected our country’s economy and naturally many sectors including maritime. According to the last data descriptions of TUIK, Turkish economy had recession at the end of 2016 for the first time after successful economic growth performance proven for many years. Additionally, when considered logistic and freight crises arisen in world economies and surplus capacity, we observe that the activities in the maritime industry which is one of the most important sectors of our country have been adversely affected. Despite all these negative remarks, Turkey is standing firmly with all resistance. In the year 2016, we have maintained our progress as Turk Loydu, we haven’t made any compromises about our strategically improvement goals which we determined in the beginning of the year; we continued “No stopping, growing by keeping our staff as far as possible without downsizing, we both expanded and rejuvenated our ships Continue for striving” portfolio. We also have continued our successful activities by expanding which
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