STRATEJİK BİR KARAR: GEMİ ALIM-SATIMI ZAMANLAMASI

Investment decisions are of the strategic significance from the point of business management. For those establishments involved in shipping industry, the ship purchase and sales decisions are considered to be the foremost decisions. The profits gained through shipping activities steadily flactuate, depending upon the changes in supply and demands for ships, world economic situations, and encountering unexpected changes and crises. In this research, the recent ten years of “dry bulk cargo” shipping, which takes a considerable place in world shipping activities is analyzed. In connection with this analysis; the research also scrutinizes the financial analysis and investment decision of one of the well-institutionalized shipping companies in Turkey in terms of strategic management related decision making procedure and timing of decision, particularly related with dry bulk carriers recently involved in the company’s fleet.