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Spain Prepares to Develop Turkey’s Rail Network
By Marca Espana on March 14 2013 | 1644 Views
The Spanish rail industry is very well positioned to win contracts in Turkey, thanks to its great experience and its excellent relations with Ankara.
Madrid, Spain, March 14, 2013 - The Spanish rail industry is very well positioned to win contracts in Turkey, thanks to its great experience and its excellent relations with Ankara.
This view, held by the Ministry of Public Works, is backed up not just by Spain’s experience in the sector and its excellent relations with Turkey, but also the fact that Spain was the special guest country at “Eurasia Rail Fair 2013”, a specialist rail and metro trade fair held in Istanbul, which was attended by seven Spanish companies.
The Turkish Minister of Transport, Binali Yildirim, expressed Turkey’s pleasure with the Spanish companies already working in the sector. One of the most important of these is OHL, which has taken part in work to modernise the high-speed Istanbul-Ankara line, as well as the construction of Marmaray, the tunnel that will this year connect the European and Asian sides of Istanbul.
Meanwhile, Manuel Niño, the Ministry of Public Works’ Secretary General for Infrastructure, said the Spanish companies “are confident of winning contracts to extend the metro systems of Ankara and Istanbul”. In fact, metro carriages delivered by the Spanish company CAF are already operating on the lines opened last year on the Asian side of Istanbul.
Spanish technology is also present in less visible sectors, with the maintenance vehicles used by the Turkish rail system having been provided by the factories of the Asturian company Talleres Alegría.
“Following our meeting with the Minister, we are confident that Spanish companies can look forward to a wonderful present and future in Turkey”, said Mario Garcés, Spain’s Deputy Secretary of Public Works, something that he put down partly to Spain’s “cultural affinity” with this Eurasian country.
The Turkish Minister of Transport, Binali Yildirim, said: “We have assigned €11 billion to this sector this year, but it is not enough. We want to invest €19 billion to have 10,000 kilometres of high-speed train track by 2023”.
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