📋 Tender Overview
Uraloglu also mentioned that the current runway of Trabzon Airport is around 2,600 meters and 45 meters wide, and that the runway saw the need and that the terminal building was not enough at the moment.
Uraoglu stated that the airport reached a maximum of 22 thousand passengers per day and said:"It is an airport that can host around 149-150 aircraft per day. We did a new airport project there. And we plan to do it on the sea just north of where it is located. As you know, there is a shortage of space in the Black Sea. And we took it into the investment program. It is not a job that can be finished in 3-5 years. Therefore, we made a small tender for the improvement of the existing airport without making a tender for it. We are adding 3 bridges to domestic flights. We are also building a new terminal building. And we divide international flights into departures and arrivals. We are also building a CIP building there. The service we will provide will relieve Trabzon Airport for about 10 years."
BAKU-TBILISI-KARS LINE IS BEING COMPLETELY RENEWED
Uraoglu stated that the President may visit China in October and said: "The Chinese have an interest in Konya, Aksaray, Yenice, a financing or joint construction of works on the Mediterranean line. There are tenders that have been made. So I think these will come to life a little bit more in this process. We have had the necessary discussions about this. From now on, we will walk in more cooperation, there are many alternatives related to the Belt Road. Every country is trying to play a role here. Every country wants to pass through its own country and to have its own involvement in the route to be passed. We have the current Baku-Tbilisi-Kars line and it is being completely renewed. It's closed right now. The reason is that it is completely renewed."
Stating that they are also building an alternative corridor coming from Azerbaijan and passing through the Zangezur Corridor near Armenia's border with Iran and reaching Kars, Uralo?lu said, "At the moment, the Azerbaijani side is about to come to Zangezur. We will build Dilucu I?d?r and Kars and we will finish it this year. This will be a serious alternative. A 1200 km line from Iraq's Fav Port, which we call the development road, to Habur will be the third alternative."
BUILD-OPERATE-TRANSFER MODEL...
Uraloglu, reminding that the "Build-Operate-Transfer" model is not on the railway, but on the air route and mostly on the highways, used the following expressions:
"What we have already taken into our national budget is clear, we are doing it. On the other hand, there are works that we do with credit. For example, we built highways with foreign credit. It is not build-operate-transfer. It is currently operated by the General Directorate of Highways with external credit. It is a system invented by the British and used intensively by the French as build-operate-transfer later. We didn't invent that. When we do it with the "build-operate-transfer" model, whatever vehicle guarantee and what toll we give, credit can be found here. In fact, rather than the vehicle that will actually pass, we have a traffic projection there, of course. We calculate which vehicle will pass in which years. We are also trying to determine a fee that the citizen can use."
Pointing out that they have exceeded the traffic forecasts on the Osmangazi Bridge, Uralo?lu said that the average number of vehicles using the bridge for this is 70 thousand, and that there is no increase in the fee for the use of more people.
