Domestic additive must be legalized for Metro

Domestic contribution for the metro: ARUS President and Çankaya University Rector Prof. Dr. Ziya Burhanettin Güvenç said, "The local contribution for the Ankara metro should be enacted to include other investments."
President of the Anatolian Rail Transportation System Cluster (ARUS) and Rector of Çankaya University. Dr. Ziya Burhanettin Guvenc stated that the domestic contribution rate of 51, which is valid in the construction of the Ankara metro, is below the capabilities and capabilities of the Turkish industry and that the domestic contribution should be secured by law, including other investments. Professor Dr. Guvenc, Ankara underground 51 the contribution of being a domestic contribution is a great stage, after this application, industrialists, foreign investors began to believe in the Turkish industrialists, he said.
51 PERCENT
In the Ankara metro, he said that they took the right to use the 51 domestic contribution after the long efforts and they did not want to give this effort separately for each tender.
Kaps The domestic contribution for the Ankara metro should be enacted to include other investments. Work on this subject continues. This should be guaranteed by law, so that local authorities, especially public enjoyment should be treated. This effort is made by ARUS, which includes our industrialists in OSTİM. Today, the 51 ratio of the local contribution is not enough for us. 80 of light rail systems to produce the Turkish industrialists. The remaining 20 part of the signaling and some hardware parts. ''
BUSINESS NOT FOLLOWING
In the case of Turkey's industrial clustering to choose the path advocated could increase domestic production Prof. Dr. Güvenç stressed the need to create an ecosystem on a sectoral basis and to involve everyone who will contribute to production. Guvench, the cluster idea is not associated or business pursuits pointing out that domestic manufacturing and design, 'firm position on the rail from the main manufacturers in Turkey wants to project from the state. If this demand is met, 100 domestic design and domestic brand products will be put into use in our country and we can open them to the world market with these references. Because 20 in the world in the year 1 trillion dollars have a large market, '' he said.
BECOMES NATIONAL BRANDS
ARUS Vice President Assoc. Dr. Sadat Çelikdog while also noting that Turkey has taken important strides in the production of light rail systems, said that national brands also remove the main target cluster. Some of the local governments ignoring the country's economic policy foreign brands and manufacturers continue to prefer to express sadly said Çelikdoğan, '' Some people, national brands are preventing the birth of. In Ankara metro tender, we tried very hard to add the local contribution of 51 to the specification. In the meantime, we have better understood why the domestic car could not be produced in this country so far. The use of domestic additives in the Ankara metro should be valid in all projects. Today, when you look at the 'Domestic Goods Purchase Law' is still in force. If a country at the top of the world economy is still sensitive about this issue should be a sine qua non for us, '' he said.

Source: Hürriyet