Expomaritt Exposhipping İstanbul 2025

18th International Maritime Exhibition

Turkiye’s premium shipbuilding and subsidiary industry exhibition

Türkiye's only shipbuilding and sub-industry meeting point; The 18th International Maritime Exhibition - Expomaritt Exposhipping İstanbul will be organized in İstanbul on 18-21 February 2025 with its new motto; "Growing Together: Today and Tomorrow".

Expomaritt Exposhipping İstanbul 2023 has brought together 8,862 sector professionals from 70+ countries with a 149% increase in the number of international visitors compared to the previous year!

Being the center of finance and industry of Türkiye, İstanbul can be defined as a business

hub for world markets thus remains its global importance for centuries. One of these important events is Türkiye's premium shipbuilding and subsidiary industry exhibition Expomaritt Exposhipping İstanbul, which is a global event gathering thousands of people from over seventy countries in İstanbul for an unforgettable week. Expomaritt is a place for potential great collaborations and hundreds of opportunities. The event is being organized by the world's #1 exhibition organizer Informa Markets bi-annually on behalf of the Chamber of Shipping-Turkiye. 

The Strength of the Turkish Shipbuilding Industry

Today, the Turkish Shipbuilding Industry, with an annual construction capacity of 4.65 million tons, has signed many “mosts” and “first”s and continues to do so, such as the world's largest live fish transport vessel, the first LNG-powered tugboat, the first hybrid ferry, the world's first battery and LNG-powered fishing vessel, the first energy conversion vessels, the largest like a sailing yacht. In addition, Türkiye has become one of the few countries in the world to build its own military ships and is among the top three in the world in yacht building. 

With its high-quality workforce and production capacity meeting European Standards and quality, the Turkish Shipbuilding Industry can compete with the leading countries in the maritime industry, particularly in new shipbuilding, ship maintenance-repair, and defense industry projects. 

Turkiye’s strengths in the industry: its geographical location between Europe and Asia, enough highly skilled labor force including well-trained naval architects, a worldwide recognition in small tonnage ships (small chemical tankers, tugs, mega yachts), shipyards flexibly responding to market conditions (shift to other ship types and reorientation to ship repair & conversion). Since there is an increasing demand for greener ships and luxury yachts worldwide, the opportunities for the Turkish Shipbuilding Industry are endless.

The Real Shipbuilding and Sub-Industry Hub of the Region