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TURK LOYDU Is Challenging IACS
Membership
that the association would be
changing its new membership
criterias effective 01 January 2018.
Considering that Türk Loydu is the
only classifacition society trying to
be a member of IACS we can say
those changes will cause another
unfair delay in their membership
process.
Turk Loydu is an “International
Classification and Conformity
Assessment Body”, providing
classification, inspection and
certification services since it was
established in 1962 by the significant
organizations of the Turkish Maritime
and Industrial sectors.
Turk Loydu is constantly
increasing the number and tonnage
of the ships that are classed within
the society, while dropping the
average age of its fleet. Despite its
disadvantage of not being an IACS
(International Association of
Classification Societies) member,
which is an extremely difficult
barrier for ship classification and
authorization by many flag state
administrations, Turk Loydu have
continued in growing and added
a total of 75 ship to its fleet in
2017, 34 of which are transferred
from IACS members, including
Gas Carriers, Ro-Ro and mega
yachts which have increased the
variety of ships in the fleet and
increased the expertise of the
society in different ship types.
While Turk Loydu constantly
increases the number and
tonnage of the ships in its fleet,
they also continued to focus on
the performance of its fleet in
port state inspections. Another
important success of Türk Loydu
was keeping its place in the “High
Performance” category of the Paris
MoU Recognised Organisation
Table for the last 12 years after
the successful PSC inspection
results of its fleet within the Paris
MoU region. This performance
is deemed very important for
the society, considering that
Turk Loydu have performed
better than some IACS member
organizations.
Turk Loydu is continuing to take
firm steps forward towards the
IACS membership which is one
of the biggest strategic objectives
of Turk Loydu. The IACS criteria
which were well integrated
into Turk Loydu systems and
Cem Melikoğlu
implemented since 2011 have
become Türk Loydu criteria,
and increased the quality of its
services. Türk Loydu proceeds
on its way by overcoming the
so-called impossible obstacles
one-by-one. But Turk Loydu
is challenging IACS about the
membership requirements which
were changed and made much
more difficult towards the end of
2017. In September 2017, in the
middle of the auditing process,
Turk Loydu was told by IACS
Turk Loydu claims that they
are good enough to join IACS.
They are outperforming some
IACS members in port state
control rankings. They were
also authorized by the world’s
largest flag state, Panama, after
a thorough audit in Turk Loydu
offices in 2017.
Turk Loydu is also attempting
to get EU authorization as a
recognized organization under
the sponsorship of Slovakia. They
have applied for certification from
quality assurance body QACE and
they are hoping to complete the
authorization process within next
year.
TURK LOYDU IS
LEADER IN NAVAL SHIP
CLASSIFICATION
Naval ships are the chief
instruments by which a nation
extends its military power onto
the seas. Turk Loydu was part of
the organization, where serious
steps were taken in respect of
building national naval ships in
Turkey.
Turk Loydu has taken part almost
in every stage of the process
successfully, which was started
out in 1996 with the classification,
of building of ‘TCG Yarbay
Kudret Gungor’ship that is the
first naval ship built in a Turkish
private shipyard. Today a wide
range of ships such as warships,
helicopter ships, platform dock
ships, patrol boats, landing ships,
special purpose ships (submarine
rescue vessel, recovery backup
vessel), tankers, training ships
can be built in private shipyards
within a national design, with a
serious domestic contribution and
under the classification of Türk
Loydu, this is the expected result
of the successful policies applied
for the last 20 years.