Feed Planet Magazine Issue-Sayı: 48 March - Mart 2023

FEED PLANET • MARCH - MART 2023 54 INTERVIEW • RÖPORTAJ resel makine ihracatındaki paylarını yüzde 1’in üzerinde olduğunu söyledi. Makine İhracatçıları Birliği Başkanı Kutlu Karavelioğlu’nun sorularımıza verdiği cevaplar şöyle: Sayın Karavelioğlu, öncelikle sektörün son bir yılını bize değerlendirebilir misiniz? Makine imalat sanayi konsolide verilerine göre, sektör 2022 yılsonunda serbest bölgeler dâhil ihracatını önceki yıla göre yüzde 9,6 artırarak 25,3 milyar dolara taşıdı. Ser- best bölgelerden yapılan ihracat hariç yıllık makine ihracatı Almanya için 2,9 milyar dolara, ABD için 1,5 milyar dola- ra, Rusya içinse 1,3 milyar dolara ulaştı. Bu üç ülkeye ser- best bölgelerden yapılan makine ihracatı ise 600 milyon doları aştı. 2022 yılında yüzde 62,4 ihracat artışı sağlanan Rusya’ya, sadece Aralık ayında 250 milyon dolar ihracat gerçekleştiren makineciler, bu ülkeyle ticari ilişkilerde tüm zamanların en yüksek verisine ulaştı. Küresel makine ve teçhizat yatırımlarında yüzde 5,2 artış, makine sanayi üretiminde ise yüzde 4 artış yaşanan 2022 percent compared to the pre-pandemic period. He stated that the share of the sector in Turkey’s total exports never fell below 10 percent and their share in global machinery exports was over 1 percent. The answers given by Kutlu Karavelioğlu, Chairman of the Machinery Exporters’ Asso- ciation, to our questions are as follows: Mr. Karavelioğlu, first of all, can you evaluate the last year of the sector for us? According to the consolidated data of the machinery manufacturing industry, the industry increased its exports, including the free zones, by 9.6 percent compared to the previous year, to $25.3 billion at the end of 2022. Excluding exports from free zones, annual machinery exports reached 2.9 billion dollars for Germany, 1.5 billion dollars for the USA and 1.3 billion dollars for Russia. Machinery exports from free zones to these three countries exceeded 600 million dol- lars. Exporting 250 million dollars to Russia, which achieved a 62.4 percent increase in exports in 2022, only in Decem- ber, machinery manufacturers reached the highest data of all time in commercial relations with this country. In 2022, when saw an increase of 5.2 percent in global machinery and equipment investments and a 4% increase in machinery industry production, the growth in investments was recorded as high as 13 percent in Turkey. According to the data announced by TURKSTAT, at the end of November, when the total production of the general manufacturing in- dustry grew by 8.3 percent on an annual basis, the produc- tion increase in machinery and equipment manufacturing was 16.5 percent. What is the share of the machinery industry in Tur- key’s exports? According to the consolidated data of the machinery in- dustry, we can say that our share in Turkey’s total exports never falls below 10 percent. We closed the year 2022 at this level and managed to keep our share in global ma- chinery exports above 1 percent. We are now ahead of developed country sectors such as Denmark, Finland and Norway. If we can maintain our speed, we will outdistance Sweden and Spain in a short time. How does Germany’s umbrella to protect domestic manufacturers affect Turkish machinery manufacturers? German businesses, which had 3 months of materials in inventories before the pandemic, are now working with at least 6 months of stock. The tendency to stockpile in order to provide self-sufficiency for a certain period of time and then gain time and localize it is not unique to us. The world has left behind the days when production can be made with a few weeks’ raw and auxiliary material stocks; Just-in-Time Production method is a thing of the past, supply chains are more important than anything else.