12th National Ship and Yacht Design Competition Concluded
Authors: Editor Gdt 
Published: June 2024

12th National Ship and Yacht Design Competition Concluded

The 12th National Ship and Yacht Design Competition which is organized every year by the Ship, Yacht and Services Exporters Association (GYHİB) has concluded. University designers received their awards at the award ceremony of the competition held this year with the theme "Catamaran Cruise Boat".

The project named "HOOPOE" by Yıldız Technical University and Maltepe University students BORA KADIOĞLU, MUHAMMET İNCİ and ÖMER ÖZCAN was deemed worthy of the first prize.

Second place went to OĞUZHAN SMART and BURAKCAN YELEK, students of Istanbul Technical University and Maltepe University, with their project named "ELITE".

Yıldız Technical University students YASİN KARAKUŞ and HASAN EROĞLU earned third place with their project titled "ZADA".

Among the winning designers in the competition, cash prizes of 120 thousand TL were given to the first place, 80 thousand TL to the second place, and 60 thousand TL to the third place.
In the jury of the competition; A delegation of 9 professionals, including Bülent Hüseyinoğlu, Prof. Oral Erdoğan, Necdet Salgür, Prof. Mustafa İnsel, Elif Yıldırım Kapucu, H. Bülent Şener, Tanju Kalaycıoğlu, Yusuf Turhan Soyaslan and Esra Özalp, all are the members of TMMOB GMO, took part. The projects were evaluated according to the criteria of innovation, contribution to the sector, applicability, domestic contribution rate, environmentalism and quality of presentation. In National Ship and Yacht Design Competitions, unlike other design competitions, there is a requirement for at least one Naval Architect and Marine Engineering or Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering student to take part in the team. Not only design but also engineering calculations are required from the projects applying to the competition.

“Nearly 1000 students participated in the competition, which has been held for 12 years.”

In the opening speech of the award ceremony, President of Ship, Yacht and Services Exporters Association CEM SEVEN stated that their goal with the competition is to instill innovation and design culture in young people who are the future of the sector and to bring talented students to the sector, and noted that nearly 1000 students have participated in the competition, which has been held for 12 years. Seven said, “Our workforce quality is our strongest field in international competition. Design is an important concept that is one of the basic elements of the ship and yacht construction industry. With the National Ship and Yacht Design Competitions we have organized every year since the establishment of our Association, we bring together sustainability, innovation, engineering skills and aesthetic elements and try to ensure that our competitors bring a new vision to themselves and our industry. We aim to provide gains in both our workforce and design culture," he said. “By the end of the year, we will be at the top of the sectors that increase exports the most in Türkiye.”

Association President Seven evaluated Turkey's ship and yacht exports and stated that GYHİB reached the highest export amount since its establishment in 2010. Seven continued his words: “We have left behind 1.5 billion Euros, which is our highest annual export amount since 2010, when the Ship Yacht and Services Exporters Association was established. By the end of the year, we will be at the top of the sectors that increased exports the most in Türkiye. We are extremely proud to be able to break new records almost every year on behalf of our institution, which represents the export side of our industry and operates to solve the problems of our exporting companies. “I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all stakeholders of the ship and yacht building industry, who contributed to these records, for participating and supporting every event within the scope of the export and promotion vision we have put forward.”

At the end of the award ceremony, it was announced that the subject of the design competition to be held in 2024 will be "Fishing Vessel Design".

Source: https://gyhib.org/tr/basinda-12-ulusal-gemi-ve-yat-tasarim-yarismasi-odul-toreni