Efficiency on shipping operation and an implementation on dry bulk transportation

Having been a popular topic for mankind since pre-historic times, shipping requires more supervision as a result of its progress and large scale it has. The terms "efficiency, productivity and performance" increase in importance in shipping. Consequently, governments and other organizations set standarts and emphasize on shipping. The objective is to determine if any private company in Turkey meets these standarts fixed by KPI. Following detailed literature review, the called shipping company is examined in practice taking into account of Marintek company's instructions and formulations. Results of the study showed that the company is sufficient in terms of environmental performance, health and safety management performance, navigational performance, operational performance, security performance. The company is not sufficient in terms of technical performance. Human resource management performance didn't evaluate due to lack of database. Keywords: Shipping, KPI Shipping Standards, Standards at Shipping, Shipping Performance Indicators, Efficiency, Productivity