Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that the Eurasia Tunnel has been awarded the Blue Dot Network Certificate, which aims to encourage quality, sustainable and inclusive infrastructure investments worldwide. This important development certifies the Eurasia Tunnel as a transportation project that breaks new ground worldwide.
The Eurasia Tunnel is a First in the World
Minister Uraloğlu stated that the Eurasia Tunnel has successfully completed the Blue Dot Network certification process established by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). At the ceremony held at the OECD Conference Center in Paris on April 24, certificates were presented to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and Eurasia Tunnel officials.
Minister Uraloğlu emphasized that the Blue Dot Network is a global initiative and aims to encourage quality, sustainable and inclusive infrastructure investments worldwide. “The Eurasia Tunnel has become the first transportation project in the world to receive this certificate by fulfilling the program’s conditions of ‘being open and inclusive, transparent, supporting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and being financially, socially and environmentally sustainable’. Thus, for the first time, a project from our country has received the Blue Dot Network Certificate. The Eurasia Tunnel also became one of the first four projects worldwide to successfully complete the certification process.” used expressions.
“The Eurasia Tunnel Has Been Providing Environmentally Sensitive Service for 8 Years”
Reminding that the Eurasia Tunnel was opened on December 20, 2016 with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister Uraloğlu said, “The Eurasia Tunnel, which connects the Asian and European sides of Istanbul with a 5-kilometer double-decker submarine highway tunnel, has been serving as a fast, economical, safe, comfortable and environmentally friendly transportation alternative for the Istanbul Bosphorus crossing for over 8 years.” dedicate.
The Eurasia Tunnel receiving this important certificate shows that Türkiye has taken on a pioneering role in sustainable infrastructure projects in the international arena. The tunnel's environmentally sensitive structure and transportation solutions also set an example for future infrastructure projects.
