Final acceptance letter has been received on 20.11.2020 for “Safi Port” Project, which was undertaken as STFA Deniz İnşaat A.Ş. by the contract signed on 07.03.2013 with the Ministry of Equipment and Transport.
The project consists of construction work for the New Port of Safi: Protection Structures, Coal Dock, Service Dock, Dredging and General Backfills; Main Breakwater and Lee Breakwater (approx. 3000 m), Coal Berth Quay Wall, Service Quay Wall.
Founded by STFA as the first international initiative of Khan Academy, the world’s leading online learning platform, Khan Academy TR has delivered 50 million lessons last semester after the Ministry of National Education transitioned to Distance Learning. Offering educational resources in 45 languages and 190 countries today, Khan Academy has been the praised by students, teachers and parents all around the globe in the pandemic, and it has also been the top choice for Turkish learners.
1.6 billion learners corresponding to 90% of the student population in the world were unable to attend school in person due to the pandemic. In Turkey, 16 million K12 students, over 4 million university students and around 1.5 million teachers, academics and educators were engaged in distance learning for 3 months starting from March. During this process, demand for Khan Academy Türkçe’s website increased by a factor of four per peak period, and by a factor of two-and-a-half on average. As a result of the collaboration agreement signed with the Ministry of National Education, the number of lessons delivered by Khan Academy TR per day reached 500,000 including the lessons delivered on EBA, which stands for Education and Informatics Network.
Operating under the STFA Foundation for Translation of Scientific and Technical Publications with an aim to provide equal opportunities for all in education, Khan Academy TR has become a prominent digital content provider with its library reaching up to 9,000 online video lessons. Not only during today’s extraordinary conditions, Khan Academy’s educational resources are free, for everyone, forever; thanks to STFA Group’s corporate social responsibility. Having touched the lives of 15 million learners in Turkey through its website, Khan Academy also reaches out to all schools, students, and teachers across Turkey via the Ministry’s EBA platform to support formal education. Helping to change education for the better, this pride belongs to the whole STFA Group. We believe that in order to build the future, we need to invest in our youth and we continue to work to the best of our abilities in the field of education, among others to carry our country forward.
As the 2020-2021 school year begins today with distance learning, we wish a healthy and successful academic year to all students, teachers, and parents; particularly those in the STFA Family. We commemorate with great respect the late Mr. Sezai TÜRKEŞ, a leader with great insight both in business life and social responsibility and the founder of our Foundation on the 22nd anniversary of his decease. We dedicate the success of Khan Academy TR to STFA’s beloved “AĞABEY” whose vision will always guide us.
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere!
As the first Turkish contractor company since 2000, we are delighted to celebrate our 20th Anniversary in Oman and excited to achieve future projects.
As the first Turkish contractor company since 2000, we are delighted to celebrate our 20th Anniversary in Qatar and excited to achieve future projects.
A group of STFA executives paid a visit to Prof. Ziya Selçuk, the Minister of National Education for a meeting in his office, in which the STFA Group’s support to education in Turkish for the past 40 years with its foundations and schools were highlighted. The STFA representatives have also informed the Minister about some new features of Khan Academy, the free online learning platform localized into Turkish by the STFA Foundation for Translation of Scientific and Technical Publications. The agenda of the meeting, which took place in Ankara, included strengthening the collaboration between Khan Academy Türkçe and the Ministry of National Education towards such areas as personalized education and academic support by digital resources in line with the 2023 Education Vision put forward by the Ministry of National Education, as well as engaging more students, teachers and schools into this non-profit education platform. Launched in 2012 with the initiative of the STFA Group and being the first international partner of Khan Academy, which offers educational content in 41 languages today, Khan Academy Türkçe has so far given 120 million lessons and touched the lives of some 15 million people.
The first ship has been docked at Coal Dock on the 22nd of February after receiving the substational completion certificate of New Safi Port Project (MASPP) at 23 February 2019.
It is learned that the ship carrying 49.000 tons of coal with 1600 tons/hour unloading capacity and material to the thermal power plant, will be used for testing the conveyor system of which the whole system will start to work as of April 2020 and coal will be brought by 80.000 capacity vessels.
Substantial Completion Certificate has been received for Improvement of Existing Khasab Tibat Coastal Road Project
Within the scope of the project, consisting of 6 sections, a total of 27 km, 238.000 m2 slope stabilization, 3.2 M m3 rock filling,
1.5 M m3 coastal protection filling and 45 culvert construction works have been completed.
Annually announced by the international construction industry magazine ENR ;
“World Largest 250 International Contractor List” awards been presented on Wednesday 25th December at the event held by Turkish Contractors Association (TMB). STFA Construction Group was deemed worthy of an award within the scope of 2019 Overseas Activities.
Doha Metro Gold Line Underground project that was started in 2014 has been completed and has opened to the Public on November 21, 2019 Within the scope of Gold Line Underground project, a tunnel of 22.841 kilometers of length has been constructed with an excavation diameter of 7,15 meters. 128.000 tunnel segments were used along the line.
During the construction of the tunnels 6 Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) were used simultaneously.
2,5 million cubic meters of excavation was made for just 10 underground stations.
The first ship has been docked at Safi Port after the completion of our Morocco New Safi Port Project.