Deeply embedded in the field of shipping law, we provide practical support on all issues around shipping in Turkey. Our detailed knowledge of this industry allows us to provide solid advice to shipowners, shipyards, buyers, brokers and insurance companies on a wide range of shipping matters. These include:

• Registration of vessels in Turkey
• Registration of mortgages in Turkey
• Ship building
• Ship repair and conversion
• Sale-purchase agreements

We are also experts in ship recycling and demolition in Turkey, which requires a filing procedure under the Basel Convention. We deal with the filing, approval notifications and all subsequent bureaucracy for vessels and rigs that are to be demolished and recycled in Turkey’s port of Aliaga, near Izmir.

Turkey is the only country outside the EU which has perfected environmentally friendly recycling and demolition for EU-flagged vessels. Turkey is a member of the OECD and International Maritime Organization (IMO), as well as a party to the Basel Convention.