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As AKEL we have multiple policies that ensure maximum customer and employee satisfaction, as well as the best health & safety conditions and minimum environmental impact.

Our Vision

Our vision is to be a first-choice and trusted supplier in our region with our technological infrastructure and organization, production quality and standards, loyalty to customer relations and commitments, sensitivity to safety-health-environment issues, management and team spirit.

Our Objectives

Consistency and continuity in time of delivery 
  • Delivery of vessels on time and within the determined budget
  • A good planning
  • Uninterrupted improvement in manufacturing methods, manufacturing tools and capacity and continuous increase of motivation
  • Manufacturing of products better than expected
  • To be energetic and dynamic at all times.
Our safety, health and environmentally sensitive mindset
  • Absolutely no compromises that would result in accidents and incidents on safety, health and environment issues
  • A well-organized and tidy work environment
  • Improvement of safety-health and environmental awareness among all employees, at all times
  • Taking timely precautions and preventive actions against any incident with a proactive-preventive manner before it occurs
To have a sincere relationship with our customers based on trust and confidence
  • Working with our customers in a trust and confidence based relationship
  • To remain committed to the perception that our customers are the most important resource for us to develop and achieve our goals
  • We adopt the principle of understanding our customers and the offshore and maritime industry very well and taking precautions before any problems can occur in our customer relations
Our employees and team spirit
  • Respecting each other with high moral standards, being fair and avoiding discrimination in any way
  • Thinking as a team, sharing information and not forgetting that team spirit is the key of our success
  • Giving employees authority and opportunities to ensure personal and team development
  • Creating a friendly working atmosphere that tackles challenges shoulder to shoulder
Active, effective and involved management structure
  • The Management is fully involved in the daily operations, is knows exactly what we produce and its production stages
  • The Management focuses on core tasks, delegates complex tasks to teams and employees
  • Taking all responsibilities as the management with our confidence in the capacity and competence of our employees
  • Predicting problems that might arise and taking necessary precautions in a timely manner with the proactive management structure
Clear and direct communication
  • Communicating clearly and directly with mutual respect. We attach great importance to and support communication
  • We speak for our ideas and defend them. However, after the decision is made, we spend all our energy on implementing the decision, even if we have disagreements. This is team spirit. We talk to each other, but never behind our backs
  • We learn from mistakes, and handle them in a friendly and constructive manner

Health and Safety Policy

AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry, its Managers and Senior Management agree to fully ensure the on-the-job health and safety of its personnel working in the factory and office, and all other persons directly or indirectly linked to the company’s business and operations.

AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry carries out its functions with compliance to relevant local, national and international laws and other requirements. 

AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry ensures that the concept of safe operation is understood and adopted by all employees and that all related practices are fully implemented. 

The company’s management is in compliance with the requirements of ISO 45001:2018 “Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series”.

As AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry, our aim is to achieve the following goals by implementing the Health and Safety Policy in line with our Company’s ISO 45001:2018 certification.

  • Occupational safety in the working environment
  • Prevent injury and loss of life
  • Prevent property damage and loss
  • To protect all people in the working environment against occupational diseases and to ensure continuous improvement and development in this context.

AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry Management System maintains, implements and follows the relevant procedures and operating instructions that are included in its structure.

Safety in the work environment, prevention of injury or loss of life and damage to the environment, as well as prevention of occupational diseases, should always be given top priority and should never be neglected. AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry believes that:

  • Accidents have reasons; they don’t happen out of the blue; therefore, they are preventable.
  • Prevention is better than reaction and costs less in the long run.
  • Every employee of the company is responsible for their own safety as well as the safety of others.
  • No matter how important, the business goal to be pursued does not require giving up on safety.
  • If a job is done safely, it is done well.
  • It is necessary to take lessons from accidents and incidents and share them.

The Company will always comply with all legal and regulatory requirements, apply recognized industry standards and take guidelines and standards recommended by relevant bodies into account, as appropriate.

AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry strives to create a safe working environment and to develop a preventive thinking approach within the Company focused on the protection of safety and the environment. In this context, the Company has developed a Management System to control the following:

  • Identification of risks related to operations and taking precautions against them,
  • Minimization of the effects of accidents that may occur and prevention of their re-occurrence,
  • Never-ending improvement of the skills of its personnel in MANAGEMENT SYSTEM,
  • Compliance with the applicable laws, mandatory rules and regulations and the conduct of the training/drills recommended by the necessary institutions.

The Company's Management System has been developed in line with occupational health and safety requirements and specifies the methods to be used to achieve the Company's Safety and Environmental Protection Policy and related objectives. With their implementation, all applicable requirements regarding the maintenance of customer ships will be met.

Every suggestion for improvement is given great importance.

All company employees are expected to comply with this policy and use their judgment, knowledge, experience, common sense and best maritime practices safely. Unsafe actions or practices will not be tolerated.

Environmental Protection Policy

AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry and Management has deemed it its duty to protect the environment in which the factory operates against pollution, to make a continuous effort to identify and correct formations that may be considered unsafe and dangerous for the environment, and to constantly improve to ensure these conditions.

AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry carries out its functions with compliance to relevant local, national and international laws and other requirements.

In the factory owned by the company; environmental pollution can occur for many reasons as a result of ship, human or equipment errors. AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry aims to prevent errors that may come from all three sources by applying the procedures in the planned maintenance program, employee training program and safe operating system.

The scope of the Company's Environmental Management Program is to prevent environmental pollution that may be caused by operations related to the following sources:

  • Oil, Fuel
  • Harmful and Poisonous Liquid Substances
  • Dirty Water
  • Garbage Waste
  • Dangerous Substances
  • Ballast Water
  • Halon and Cooling Gases
  • Noise
  • Poisonous Paint
  • Grit / Dust and other airborne particulate matter.

AKEL Ship & Offshore Industry achieves this goal by maintaining, implementing and monitoring the relevant Management System procedures and operating instructions. 

AKEL has been certified with ISO 14001:2015 Certificate.

Quality Policy

Customer satisfaction, provide high quality and standard services are the main goals of AKEL.

AKEL adopts practices that always include preventive and corrective measures against the needs of its customers and their comments, requests, suggestions or complaints, and strives to constantly improve its service quality.

AKEL sets, monitors and reviews measurable and achievable quality targets to ensure continuous improvement and development.

All Company employees are required to know and understand this policy.

AKEL has been certified with ISO 9001:2015 Certificate.