New process at North Aegean Port in Çandarlı

new processes in the northern Aegean port of Çandarli: in Turkey's largest container port as planned in the wake of North Aegean Harbor Çandarli planning related to road and rail links to a new tender. Poyraz, Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications said, “Our ministry will bring the railway and highway to the port backcourt. Our main goal is to connect Çandarlı and other ports in the Nemrut Bay to China via the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku and Türkmenbaşı lines ”.
After the planning of Turkey's largest container port in the North Aegean Harbor Çandarli as planned rail and road connections to a new tender.
Özkan Poyraz, Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, gave information on the infrastructure works related to the port with the capacity of 12 million TEU planned as the international transfer port.
Poyraz stated that the breakwater construction of the port has been completed and that a work has been carried out on the Build-Operate-Transfer tender for the commissioning of the 4 million TEU section, and that the planning work on the road and rail connection to the port is about to be completed.
“This year, the tender will be put out with the build-operate-transfer method”
Poyraz stated that the connection roads and the stone embankment docks and backfield superstructures to be built by private companies will be built in coordination after the tender to be opened. We made investigations on how highway and railroad connection can be achieved. As a port whose land and railway connection projects have been completed, it will be tendered this year with the build-operate-transfer method. ”
Poyraz stated that the breakwater and other infrastructure projects were completed with an investment of 290 million pounds, and that the company that will take the tender will undertake the ship berthing berths and superstructure investments in the backcourt.
Poyraz, who noted that the highway to be built in Çandarlı Port was planned as a continuation of the ring road between Menemen and İzmir, and that the traffic jam in the region will be eliminated thanks to the 67-kilometer highway, Poyraz announced that the railway connection will be established by adding the port to the Aliağa - Bergama and Soma railway projects.
To connect the target Aegean to China by rail
Poyraz pointed out that there are also important port investments in the Aliağa region except the North Aegean Port.
“There are important port investments in the region, in Nemrut Bay. Petlim-APM terminals will be commissioned this year as a terminal with a capacity of 1,5 million TEU containers. This means getting 2 thousand 500 trucks into traffic a day. We will ease the traffic with the connecting roads and junctions. Our main goal is to connect Çandarlı and other ports in the Nemrut Bay, namely the Aegean Region, to China via the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku and Türkmenbaşı line and through the middle transportation corridor. We will soon realize the goal of reaching the Central Asian countries and reaching to China by facilitating the Caspian Sea passage with Ro-Ro ships as soon as possible, by completing the road connections of our Aegean ports and within the east-west corridor.
Poyraz stated that they have reached an important point in line with the studies in this direction and added that the state-industry cooperation has reached fruitful results by analyzing the needs of industrialists and port operators in the region, and that they will exhibit a good example of combined transportation by working not only on road connections but also on transfer and logistics centers.
“Investors are now seeing ahead”
Izmir Chamber of Commerce (DTO) Izmir Branch Chairman Yusuf Ozturk 2013 in the Northern Aegean Port for the tender of the ways of connecting the company is not clear because the companies do not offer a bid, he said.
“The investor could not see the way, as it would both undertake the construction of the port and make the connection roads. Investors are now seeing their way, ”said Ozturk, adding:
“It is a great factor but not enough to make the roads with a separate tender. It is necessary to put out a tender with a capacity that meets the needs of the day and is suitable for the conditions of the day. There is already a supply surplus regarding the port. For this, 4 million TEU is above the conditions of the day. The investor may experience a problem in this regard. However, the tenderer of the tender comes out. Because a lot of port investments continue in our environment. ”