Eskisehir-Istanbul
high-speed train line will be completed by end of 2013, connecting
Asia and Europe continents with Marmaray, travelling 60 metres below
the sea.
Suleyman
Karaman, chairman of the Board of Turkish State Railways (TCDD),
stated that Turkish rail transport corridor would connect Beijing to
London with the Marmaray project.
Evaluating
the developments in the Turkish railway sector to Anadolu Agency,
Karaman said $26 billion investment was made to railways in the last
decade in Turkey.
Reminding
that Turkey ranked 6th in Europe and 8th in the world in having a
high-speed train line, Karaman stated that once the
Eskisehir-Istanbul high-speed train line was established it would
connect Asia and Europe continents with Marmaray, travelling 60
metres below the sea. Marmaray is expected to be complete by
September 30, 2013 and Ankara Istanbul travel time would be reduced
to three hours, Karaman said.
Karaman
also stated that Ankara-Sivas, Ankara-Bursa and Ankara-Izmir
high-speed train lines were under construction, expected to be
completed by 2023, adding that ten thousand kilometres of high-speed
train lines were planned to be built in Turkey by 2023.
"'Iron
Silk Road' will be established with the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railway
Project with the cooperation of Turkey, Azarbaijan and Georgia. This
project will allow to reach as far as Middle Asia and China.
Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railway Project will serve as a railway corridor
and it is aimed to carry 6.5 million tonnes of load between Europe
and Asia in the first year.
Turkey
will not only make a revolution in the transport system but it will
also provide an alternative route to Middle East, Middle Asia and Far
East, considered as the heart of world economy and energy sources.
Railway transport corridor will connect Beijing to London with the
Marmaray Project," Karaman said.
Also
touching on the Silk Wind Block Train Project, Karaman said the block
train implementation would make railway an important alternative for
domestic and foreign carriage of goods.
Source: AA
Source: AA
