TURKISH SHIPOWNERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THIRD PARTY SHIP MANAGEMENT COMPANIES: A MARKET RESEARCH STUDY

Year 2014, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 111 - 136, 04.11.2015

İsmail Çetin , A.güldem Cerit

https://doi.org/10.18613/deudfd.34793

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the Turkish ship owners’
perceptions of third party ship management companies and the demands for
the services of these companies from Turkish shipowners. As a methodology,
literature review and telephone structured interviews have been utilized. The
frequency analysis as a statistical method was used to analyze the results of
the interviews. The population of the study consists of the Turkish shipowners
who have any kinds of vessels with the capacity of 1000 gross tons and over.
The results of the study revealed that big portion of Turkish shipowners, 80%
of the sample, are not willing to give their vessels to the management of third
party ship management companies. Although a small portion of owners takes
on the management services, they do not frequently assign full management
to third parties. This is because of the fact that Turkish shipowners
traditionally operate their vessels themselves and they prefer to have
complete control over them. In fact, Turkish shipowners joining the study do
not trust in the third party ship management companies. Even the owners
using the third party management companies prefer to keep complete control
over the management companies.

Keywords

Third party ship management, ship owning, market research

TURKISH SHIPOWNERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THIRD PARTY SHIP MANAGEMENT COMPANIES: A MARKET RESEARCH STUDY

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Türk armatörlerinin üçüncü taraf gemi yönetim işletmelerini ne şekilde algıladıklarını ortaya koymak ve Türk armatörlerinin bu işletmelerin sunmuş oldukları hizmetlere olan taleplerini analiz etmektir. Çalışmada yöntem olarak, literatür taraması ve biçimsel telefonla mülakat yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Mülakat sonuçlarının değerlendirilmesinde istatistiksel bir yöntem olan frekans analizi kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın ana kütlesi 1000 gros ton ve üzeri her tipte gemiye sahip armatörlerlerden oluşmaktadır. Çalışma sonrasında örneklemdeki armatörlerden % 80’inin gemilerini üçüncü taraf gemi yönetimi işletmelerinin yönetimine vermeye istekli olmadıkları ortaya çıkmıştır. Her ne kadar küçük bir grup armatör, gemi yönetim işletmelerinden hizmet alsalar da bu hizmetler sürekli ve tam gemi yönetim hizmetlerini içermemektedir. Bu sonuçtaki en büyük etken Türk armatörlerinin geleneksel olarak gemilerini kendilerinin yönetmesi ve gemileri üzerinde tam bir kontrol kurma isteği olarak ortaya çıkmaktadır. Gerçekte, çalışmaya katılan Türk armatörlerinin üçüncü taraf gemi yönetim işletmelerine güvenmedikleri görülmektedir. Gemilerini gemi yönetim işletmelerinin kontrolüne veren armatörler dahi gemileri üzerinde tam bir kontrol kurma isteğindedirler

Keywords

Üçüncü taraf gemi yönetimi, armatörlük, pazar araştırması

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