Ortech Marine acts as your owner-side ship repair agent: reading the yard quote before the vessel docks, negotiating scope and terms on your behalf, and standing between the ship and the yard through the whole repair. When your vessel enters Tuzla or Yalova, we don't work for the yard. We work for you.
Most vessels coming to Tuzla or Yalova need four parties: a ship's agent, a yard, an engineering firm and a parts supplier. Ortech Marine is all four, with one contact for the whole stay.
Most repair budgets bleed at the yard quote and in the extras that follow. These are the lines we watch on every stay.
| Line | The usual problem | How we hold it |
|---|---|---|
| Steel renewal | Quoted in kilograms as an estimate. The real quantity appears after thickness gauging, often well above the quote. | Unit rate agreed before arrival. Gauging witnessed, renewed steel measured jointly with the yard. |
| Blasting & coating | Areas in m² and the surface-preparation grade read differently by owner and yard. | Areas, preparation standard and coating system fixed in the specification. Surfaces inspected before coating. |
| General services | Dock rent, electricity, cooling and fire water, garbage, gas-free certificates, fire watch and cranage, all charged per day. | Daily tariff checked against the agreed stay. Dock days kept to the plan. |
| Extras | New items raised during the stay, priced after the work is done. | Each extra priced against the yard tariff and approved before work starts. Logged daily. |
| Delays | Dock days that slip, and no record of who caused them. | Daily progress against plan, so the cause of any delay is on record when it happens. |
| Final invoice | Invoiced quantities that differ from what was actually done. | Final account reconciled item by item against agreed quantities and the daily log. |
Pre-arrival survey, detailed work specification and class-aligned scoping, so the yard quote is the right one before the vessel docks.
We compare yards in Tuzla or Yalova on the same scope, then negotiate tariff and terms on the owner's behalf.
One named engineer accountable from arrival to departure, with daily reporting and every extra approved before work starts.
Class items, test records and the final account closed out before the vessel sails.
One engineer for a fault-finding visit. A full team on site within a week for a dry-dock or a retrofit. Whatever the size, every job runs the same way.
Written down and agreed before the work starts.
Findings recorded, not assumed.
Progress to the owner every day.
Documentation handed over with the job.
Full agency and engineering bundle for a single yard stay: ship agency duties, yard selection and negotiation, customs for parts, crew transit and provisioning. Fixed-scope bundle quoted before arrival.
The more of this we have, the fewer questions we need to ask before we can price the work. Send what you have; we'll ask for the rest.
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The Tuzla shipyard region on the Anatolian shore of Istanbul, and the Altınova shipyards in Yalova across the Sea of Marmara. Both are within hours of mobilisation from our office in Tuzla.
No. We act for the shipowner. Yard selection, contract negotiation, quality inspection and change-order review are all done in the owner's interest.
We work alongside your superintendent. We bring local yard knowledge, tariff negotiation in Turkish, daily presence at the yard, and the customs and port work, so your superintendent can concentrate on the technical decisions.
Per project, or as a fixed-scope Voyage package that covers agency and engineering for the whole stay, quoted before the vessel arrives.
Yes. The same team provides the engineering: technical management, automation and electrics, retrofits, overhauls and specialty repair.
Within one working day, with a named engineer and a path forward.
The same team covers agency, engineering and parts, so one contact handles the whole job.
Send the vessel details and your repair list. We'll come back within one working day with a named engineer.