Among the 84 private shipyards and 4 military shipyards in our country, the İstanbul Naval Shipyard Command, with a history dating back to the 1450s, is the largest in terms of both capacity and size. Established on a total area of 1 million square meters, including 140,000 square meters of indoor space, and housing 32 separate factories/workshops within its premises, the İstanbul Naval Shipyard Command is responsible not only for the maintenance and sustainment of 168 ships and naval vessels currently in the inventory of the Turkish Naval Forces Command but also for the construction of new surface combatants.