1. General Overview

2. Industrial Zones

     2.1. Samsun Industrial Zone
             2.1.1. Activities in Industrial Parcels
             2.1.2. Sectored Distribution of Facilities Actively Involved in Manufacture in Samsun Industrial Zone
             2.1.3. Facilities in Consideration for the Area of 48.162 m2 Allocated in the Region for Administrative and Social Facilities Construction
             2.1.4. Factories in Operation in Samsun Industrial Zone            

     2.2. Samsun-Kavak Industrial Zone
             2.2.1. Foundation and Enterprise Organization
             2.2.2. Location
             2.2.3. Nationalization
             2.2.4. Ground Plan
             2.2.5. General Land Use
             2.2.6. Distribution of Industrial Parcels
             2.2.7. Distribution of Parcels in Social Facilities Land
             2.2.8. Construction of Infrastructure
             2.2.9. Comparison to the Whole of the Area of 50 Hectares
                        2.2.9.1. Comparison of Roads
                        2.2.9.2. Comparison of Potable Water Networks

     2.3. Samsun-Bafra Industrial Zone
             2.3.1. Foundation and Board of Entepreneurs
             2.3.2. Land Acquisition by Industrial Zone       
             2.3.3. Shore Edge Line and Readily-Made Maps of 1/1000
             2.3.4. Inclusion of Bafra in the Industrial Zone and Ground Plan Approval
             2.3.5. Infrastructure, Study-Project and Engineering, Ag-Og Elektrik İnşaatı and I.Stage (100 Ha.) Infrastructure Construction Tenders
                        İnşaatı İhaleleri

3. Small Industrial Estates

    3.1. Evaluation on the Basis of Scales

    3.2. Status of Existing Businesses in the Province
            3.2.1 Samsun 1.Section (Old) SIE
            3.2.2. Gülsan SIE 
            3.2.3. 19 Mayıs SIE
            3.2.4. İlkadım SIE
            3.2.5. Örnek SIE     
            3.2.6. Bafra 1. Kısım SIE
            3.2.7. Bafra Kızılırmak SIE
            3.2.8. Terme SIE
            3.2.9. Vezirköprü SIE
            3.2.10. Çarşamba SIE
            3.2.11. Ladik SIE
            3.2.12. Havza SIE
            3.2.13. Havza 25 Mayıs SIE
            3.2.14. Havza Güven SIE

    3.3. Major Problems of Small Industrial Estates

    3.4. Contributions of SIEs to Provincial Economy

4. Evaluation of SE Businesses in terms of Sectors

    4.1. Food-Beverage and Tobacco Industry
            4.1.1. Bakery Products Food Industry
            4.1.2. Companies Manufacturing Sugar Products

    4.2. Wood Products and Furniture Industry

    4.3. Textiles and Leather Industry

    4.4. Metal Goods Machinery and Equipment Casting Manufacture Industry
           4.4.1. Casting Manufacture Industry
           4.4.2. Non-ferrous Casting Industry
           4.4.3. Cupola and Induction Partnered Facilities
           4.4.4. Facilities with Arched Heaters
           4.4.5. Machine Manufacture Industry

     4.5. Chemical-Oil-Rubber-Plastic Goods

     4.6. Industrial Companies in Groups
             4.6.1 Employment Provided in Sectors and Employment Figures

     4.7. Public Facilities of Manufacturing Industry
             4.7.1. Ballıca Tobacco Factory
             4.7.2. Çarşamba Sugar Factory
                        4.7.2.1. Manufacturing Capacity

5. Samsun Free Zone
     5.1. Manufacturing Activities in Free Zone

     5.2. Commerce and Service Activities in Free Zone
             5.2.1. Progress in Trade Volume in Years ($)
                        5.2.2. Distribution of Trade Volume over Good Transactions (end –year 2006)

     5.3. Distribution of Free Zone Activities in Terms of Activity Focus  

1. General Overview

Samsun is the largest metropolis of Northern Black Sea. The population density in Samsun enables the emergence of a vivid commercial and industrial life in the city. The city settlement and production areas are more convenient for future investments than other Black Sea cities. With its strategic importance, Samsun is in a position more advantageous than other cities. Its role as the first marine door leading to the Black Sea basin and the first land door leading to Central Anatolia also allocates to Samsun a very important place in the trade structure of the region.

Due to its position as a destination for immigration, employment in Samsun has been facing growing difficulties. Recent nationalization of certain public services in the region are of utmost importance in terms of the channelization of the people and enterprises in the region into more convenient and profitable investments.

For the aforesaid properties of the province, although since the foundation of the Republic there have been considerable efforts to found Black Sea Copper Businesses, Nitrogen and Tobacco Factories and other big industrial businesses, Samsun has yet to become a wholly industrialized city and witness its central industrial facilities gain sufficient momentum in the development of the region’s small businesses due to the prominence of an agriculture-based economy in the region. The position of the city as the first geographical door to both Black Sea and Central Anatolia has enabled its trade life to maintain its vividness. However, especially since agriculture-based manufacture is predominant and thus employment is mainly focused on this area, qualified man power has not been able to reach sufficient levels.

Especially after the year of 1980, as a remedy to the restrained employment in the city, small industrial estates have been provided both around the city and in suburbs and the employment has thus been channelized into relatively capital-intensive small businesses.

The most important of those products manufactured in Samsun and its whereabouts are cement, fertilizers, artificial jute, auto replacement parts, pumps in various sizes, furniture and textile and medical equipment.

Along with medium- and large-scales businesses, there are, furthermore, labor-intensive small facilities manufacturing heating boilers, plastic PVC facilities, agricultural equipment and machinery, copper products, construction iron, plastic bags, various sweets, jam and industrial-type kitchen appliances and refrigerators within small-scale businesses.

There are 16 small industrial estates in the region, 5 in the city center and 11 in suburbs. The total number of business offices in the city is 5.279.

There are 404 cooperatives in the city. The Chamber of Commerce has 6.145 registered members.

According to the observations of the Directorate of Customs, as of December, 2006, an import volume of 125 million $ has been reached in Charcoal, Scrap Iron, Tobacco, LPG, Timber, Electrode, Blue Flow Project Equipment and Instruments, Phosphate, Diesel Oil, Grubber, Wheat, Bran, Carbamide, Lumber, Fertilizers, Copper Ore, Medical Equipment and Sesame .

Similarly, an export volume of 125 million $ has been reached in Crystal Sugar, Valve, Citrus Fruits, Nuts, Copper, Wet Yeast and Bread Additives, Wheat Flour, Snail and Snail Shelves, PVC Pipes, Chipboard, Spring Beds, Pipe Connection Pieces, Frozen Anchovy, Frozen Chicken and Silvery Thread.

2. Industrial Zones           

2.1. Samsun Industrial Zone

2.1.1. Activities in Industrial Parcels

Source: Directorate of Industrial Zones

Within Social Facilities and with the cooperation of Small and Medium Industry Development Organization and Industrial Zones, the Internet Café has been completed in construction and opened for business. Samsun Chamber of Commerce has initiated and is currently proceeding with the construction of Anatolian Technical High School. The construction of Technology Development Center and SMIDO Regional Laboratory and Administrative Building was tendered on 10 March 2000, initiated in 07 May 2000 and upon completion, opened for business in July, 2001. There are 2.330 people working in the recently opened offices. 21 Companies are currently under construction whereas another 5 are in project process.

2.1.2. Sectored Distribution of the Facilities in Manufacturing Operation

Construction Application Area is of an actual area of 1.606.522 m2 and a percentage of 100%. Its distribution is as the graph below.

  Source: Directorate of Industrial Zones

The currently constructed factories are envisaged for the manufacture of textile products, canvas, automotive side industry, fiberglass cabins, playground for children, cast-iron sphero, frozen food and marine products. These factories are estimated tin feasibility reports to employ 734 people when opened for operation.

The firm currently in project design will be involved in cast-iron sphero casting. When this facility is completed, it is estimated to employ 60 people.

When all factories in the region are completed and opened for business, the employment is estimated to reach 4.460 people.

2.1.3. Facilities in Consideration for the Area of 48.162 m2 Allocated in the Region for Administrative and Social Facilities Construction

                Yapılması Öngörülen Tesisler

Within the Social Facilities, under the Article 18 of the Industrial Zones Code No. 4562, provided that the property remains in the possession of Industrial Zones, a land o 4.100 m2 has been provided to SMIDO, which completed the construction of service building of 1610 m2 in this area in March, 2001. The service building currently serves as the Directorate of SMIDO and SMIDO Laboratory.

Turkish Standards Institute has been allocated an area of 5.040 m2 for the purpose of the construction of a service building and a laboratory, the first stage of which was initiated in April, 2004 with the construction of the service building on an area of 600 m2 and completed and commences operation in January, 2005.

Samsun Chamber of Commerce was also allocated land, on which the construction of the Anatolian Technical High School was initiated in February 2000. The construction, which is still in progress, was entrusted to the Chamber of Commerce. When the construction is completed, the high school with a capacity of 720 students will be serving in three areas of Computerized Numeric Control, Hydraulic-Pneumatic Technology and Medical Electronics.

Within Social Facilities and with the cooperation of Small and Medium Industry Development Organization and Industrial Zones, the Internet Café was completed in construction and opened for business in May 2000. The regional Internet access was linked with ADSL connection in November, 2003.

Regional Directorate Service Building was completed as a building of 1.116m2 on an area of 6.883 m2 and opened for operation in October, 2004.

Use of natural gas has been aimed in efforts initiated in October, 2003, which has been predominated by the network construction wholly financed by the Industrial Zone participants and cost 750.000 €. The construction was completed in January, 2004 and endowed with Gross Natural Gas Disposition Contract with Turkish Oil Pipes Corporation. As of today, 31 companies are utilizing 1.200.000 m3 of natural gas both in processing and heating.

Black Sea Region Metrological Laboratory was completed in construction and opened for operation in January, 2007 on the land allocated to the Provincial Directorate of Industry and Commerce

2.1.4. Factories in Operation in Samsun Industrial Zone

Source: Samsun Directorate of Industrial Zones (March 2007)

Factories in Project Process (March – 2007)