Çanakkale Bridge and BTK Railway Project follow up foreign investors

Çanakkale Bridge and BTK Railway Project are under the follow-up of foreign investors: According to Minister Ahmet Arslan, there are especially two projects that foreigners carefully monitor. One of them is the Çanakkale Bridge in the West and the other is the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project in the East… The Minister of Transport asks “When do you start with Japanese, Chinese and South Korean companies. Italian Astaldi is also in close follow-up, ”he said.
Osmangazi from Yavuz, Eurasia and foreign interest of third airport from the Dardanelles Bridge Tunnel was once again turned to the giant projects in Turkey. The day before, we went to Kars at the invitation of CLK Energy sohbet that she Maritime Transport and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan full emphasized this point: "Turkey has huge foreign interest in large projects ... domestic and foreign confidence in a robust against Turkey."
THE ALIENS HAVE INTENSIVE INTEREST
Two projects, which foreign investors are looking forward to, attract attention. One of them is the Çanakkale Bridge in the West… The other is the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project in the East… Minister Arslan shared the information that a tender will be held for the Çanakkale Bridge in the coming days. Minister Arslan pointed out that foreign investors often ask "When will you bid for the bridge tender" and said "There is a lot of interest".
CHINA, KOREA, JAPAN AND ITALIAN
According to Arslan, quoted at the beginning of the Dardanelles Bridge and are most interested in, past life in Turkey shows interest in the other giant projects in China, Korea and Japan have acquired the company. In addition, Italian Astaldi, one of the contractors of Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, is also closely following Çanakkale. Stating that the signatures have been completed and the tender will be announced in the coming days, Minister Arslan said, “We will receive bids in mid-January. We aim to lay the foundation on March 18, 2017, ”he said.
NO RAILWAY
Minister Arslan stated that Çanakkale 1915 bridge will be the first in the world with the 2023 meter foot opening and will pass the Akashi bridge in Japan, which is the first 1991 meter between the legs. He explained that when the Çanakkale 1915 bridge is implemented, similar fees will be applied to the existing bridge crossings.
'CORRIDOR' FOR EVERY SECTOR
Turkey last week that marked the world's agenda, a successful 'signed the Energy Summit. This summit showed once again that "Energy Corridor Turkey" discourse of foreigners owned more have been positioned from the Turks. not only the energy of the geographical location of Turkey, in terms of other sectors 'corridor' Arslan Minister stating might be in a position, first as a 'logistics' stressed the sector and spoke of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway from the project.
In this sense, Minister Arslan stated that they want to complete the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project by the end of this year and emphasized that Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and China, especially Kazakhstan, want this line very much. Even Kazakhstan has already promised 10 million tons of cargo per year.
60 FROM THE SEA, 15 DAY FROM KARS
Turkmenistan has also accelerated its work on the line and is working to expand its ports. Giving the information that China sends 240 million tons of freight to the west by sea per year, Arslan said, “It takes 45-60 days by sea. With the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars line, this period is reduced to 12-15 days. Initially, we aim to transport 6.5 million tons of cargo per year to this line. Our medium term target is 35 million tons per year ”.
LOGISTICS CENTER
The Minister stated that the bids for the logistics center to be built in Kars will also be received this month and said, “With the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars connection, the investors want to send the finished goods to Europe or Asia by rail for the goods to be produced in this geography. That's when the logistics center will be required. Maintenance and repairs of the trains will also be carried out in the logistics center in Kars. A corridor that will go to Iran and Islamabad via Kars-Iğdır-Nakhichevan is also being considered, although it is also in the medium term. Kars logistics center will be more meaningful ”.
1.5 leaked 10.500 truck leak per month
Minister Arslan explained the reason behind the practice of fining a total of 592 lira for trucks, trucks and heavy vehicles illegally passing through the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge (FSM) in the Bosphorus, despite being banned: “ In 1.5 months, 10.500 trucks and heavy vehicles passed through FSM illegally. With the authority given by the law numbered 6001, we implemented the provision that "those who do not obey the rules will be fined 500 TL". The police will fine the driver of the vehicle he turns to 92 TL and remove 20 points from his driver's license. The heavy vehicle driver who goes through the FSM illegally will have to pay 592 liras. "
Will not print on fiber
Commenting on the fact that Türk Telekom, which is the dominant operator in fiber network infrastructure with 4.5G technology, does not agree with other operators (Turkcell, Vodafone) to establish a company, Arslan said: “Gidişat definitely requires fiber optic infrastructure. Let them meet in a common infrastructure. So, let's bring more people to this common infrastructure. But here, Türk Telekom rightly says, (I suffered from this until today in the past, now why should someone else go on with it). Others say, let's start an infrastructure company. I think Türk Telekom and other operators will approach each other. This situation will be to the advantage of the parties. But we cannot say that you will definitely join Türk Telekom here. The end of the day depends on those companies convincing each other. This is a commercial balance. ”
When does traffic relax in Istanbul?
Arslan stated that although there are passages from Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge in Istanbul, the heavy traffic is due to the completion of the connection roads, and stated that there is a delay due to expropriation in the Kurtköy - Sancaktepe region, but this additional road will end at the end of the year. Reminding that the traffic density also consists of the payments in card passes, Arslan said that this density decreased relatively with the inclusion of HGSs such as OGS to the credit card system. Arslan stated that the negativities will be eliminated at Mahmutbey toll booths, especially in OGS and HGS, which will provide automatic transition. Expressing that the bridge connection roads should be completed completely in order to meet the needs, Arslan said: “There is a 215-kilometer connection road project. Our state road with 2 × 3 lanes from Odayeri to Çatalca is being built. It will end at the end of 2017. The European side of the Northern Marmara Motorway, where we have made the tender with the build-operate-transfer model from the 3rd Airport to Kınalı, will end at the end of 2018. "
Foreign vehicle that does not pay the penalty remains at customs!
Minister Arslan also said: “We are doing what is necessary with the regulation on foreign trucks. We made the legal arrangement. The penalties will be given at the customs gates. So far, 427 thousand vehicles with foreign license plates have passed illegally. After that, the vehicle whose penalty is not collected will not be able to leave the customs gate until it pays the money. Sorry if he has no money ... "
GOOGLE TOKATI TAX FROM TURKEY!
The "penalty" pressure on the US Google continues. Finally, Europe and the UK were at Google's door with penalties such as rain. Answering our questions about such tax sanctions, Minister Arslan said, “We have works. In the past, the domestic search engine was spoken. When it comes to criminal sanctions, there is a very serious work in France. Although the company headquarters is in Ireland. We are also slowly working on creating a local search engine and taking steps to implement such sanctions. We will share it when we mature a little more, ”he said.
New ones are not expensive, old ones are cheap!
Bridge and motorway tolls are always on the citizen's agenda. Despite this, we continue our investments. The price is determined every year with a certain assessment. Here, the inference of the hike in the future will not be taken out of the inference, "he said.
New Istanbul money model
Stating that they have completed the works on the tender for Kanal Istanbul, Minister Arslan said, “We are interested in how we can work with a new financing model. "We want to implement a new model that will be mixed and exemplary, just as we have implemented build-operate-transfer in the past."