Iron Silk Road will be Erzurum logistics center

With the Iron Silk Road, Erzurum will become a logistics center: With the completion of the project, Erzurum will be the center of logistics in this region, said Chairman of the Board of DAİB.
Cemal Şengel, Chairman of the Board of the Eastern Anatolian Exporters Union (DAİB), stated that Erzurum will become a logistics center with the implementation of the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railway Line Project, called the "Iron Silk Road".
Şengel evaluated the effects of the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railway Line Project, which is planned to shift all of the freight transportation between Europe and Central Asia to the railway and is planned to be completed in 2018, on exports and regional development.
Exports to the development of a strong relationship and exports by region of development performance in the lead Şengel stating seen that out, came to the fore with the export performance in Turkey the provinces, he pointed out that the higher the socio-economic and developmental level.
Şengel, to be more Eastern Anatolia Exporters, he said that Turkey in 2023 to determine the export target of $ 500 billion in Erzurum-Erzincan-Bayburt studies conducted for the development of the share purchase.
- "Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railway Line, a tremendous project"
Noting that an important element of exports is logistics and transportation facilities, Şengel stated that the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railway Line Project is of great importance at this point.
Şengel, all of great importance for the export of Turkey and Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railway Line expressed Project is very desirable that the government start the project by making the necessary planning, implementation, project from Europe, making possible the continuous load transported by rail to China He said he would come.
Shengel stated that all of the freight transportation between Europe and Central Asia is planned to be shifted to railway.
- "Erzurum will be the center of logistics"
Şengel stated that logistics, which is one of the sine qua non of transportation, will offer important opportunities in terms of development of the region with the project to be realized.
“Logistic support should be provided to producing companies so that they export. With the completion of the project, Erzurum will be the center of logistics in this region. We are working for the region to become a logistics center, that is, to collect and export the goods here. Since Erzurum is 5 kilometers away from 350 countries and its branches are strategically and geographically extended, we aim to make it a logistics center. With the permission of Allah, we will do this. "