While Turkey’s neighbours step forward in transit rail traffic, Turkey is working on the transit rail freight projects to increase its share of transit traffic in region, which is almost nothing by now.
The intermodal traffic between Turkey and Europe has developed very fast in recent years.
About 20% of over 20 thousands of freight wagons are owned by private companies in Turkey.
Terminals are the hearts of rail freight, playing an important role on the competitiveness of rail against other modals.
Baspinar-Gaziantep-Oduncular railway stretch will be closed for 14 months.
Although railway is the least prefered modal among all in Turkey, there’s an annual volume of 25 mn tonnes of rail freight which is about 4 % of all loads.
Turkey’s new train operator, TCDD Tasimacilik, is going to invest 586 mn passenger train sets, locos and freight wagons in 2017.
This year, TL 10 bn is allocated for Istanbul’s metro and suburban train projects.
Although high speed train projects have a considerable share from 2017 railway investment budget of TL 8 bn (over € 2 bn), the development will be far behind the targets.
Goztepe-Atasehir-Umraniye metro project connecting Marmaray and two other metro lines and go through the new finance center under construction has got a budget more than TL 1 billion this year.
Rail Turkey is now 4 years old. Here are highlights of these four years.
The tariff, which once helped enterance of many private companies into railway transport market, is changing.
The last step of TCDD Tasimacilik has changed the rules of the game and everybody now keeps eyes on potential private operators.
Share of railway in foreign trade of Turkey is going down.
TCDD Tasimacilik’s new Siemens high speed train sets will start operation starting from tomorrow.
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