Regional Policy Dialogue on Strengthening Transport Connectivity in Southern and Central Asia 7-8 February 2018
Session 4: Status of Cross-border Rail Transport Connectivity including Transit Facilitation in Southern Asia: Country Presentations TURKEY
Bilgen UZAR International Relations Department TCDD-Turkish State Railways 1 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RAILWAYS 1856-2017
RAILWAY NETWORK BEFORE REPUBLIC PERIOD 4.136 km MAINLINE EARLY YEARS OF REPUBLIC (1923-1950) 3.764 km MAINLINE (Avarage 134 km) FROM 1951 TILL THE END OF 2003 945 km MAINLINE (Avarage 18 km) 2004 - 2015 1.805 km MAINLINE (Avarage 150 km) RAILWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION 4.053 km MAINLINE ▪ Existing Network Lenght :1212.608.532 Km Km
EDİRNE ZONGULDAK
SAMSUN İSTANBUL KARS TEKİRDAĞ ÇANKIRI AMASYA İZMİT ERZURUM Bandırma BİLECİK ANKARA BURSA KIRIKKALE SİVAS ERZİNCAN ESKİŞEHİR BALIKESİR POLATLI MUŞ AFYON ELAZIĞ MANİSA UŞAK VAN KAYSERİ İZMİR NİĞDE MALATYA BATMAN KONYA K.MARAŞ DİYARBAKIR AYDIN ISPARTA DENİZLİ BURDUR MARDİN OSMANİYE GAZİANTEP KARAMAN ADANA MERSİN
2 CURRENT STATUS - RAILWAY NETWORK Total Lines, Length of Electrified and Signaled Lines
Total Railway Network 12.608 km
High Speed Lines 1.213 km
Conventional Lines 11.395 km
Signaled Lines (% 44) 5.534 km
Electrified Lines (% 35) 4.660 km
3 TURKISH STATE RAILWAYS
8 REGIONAL DIRECTORATES İSTANBUL, ANKARA(2), İZMİR, SİVAS, MALATYA, ADANA, AFYON H.PAŞA, İZMİR (State Fund),(MERSİN, İSKENDERUN, SAMSUN, BANDIRMA and DERİNCE -the right 7 PORTS to operation is transferred) 4 AFFILIATED COMPANIES TCDD TAŞIMACILIK A.Ş., TÜLOMSAŞ, TÜVASAŞ, TÜDEMSAŞ 5 PARTNERSHIPS EUROTEM, İZBAN, VADEMSAŞ, SİTAŞ, RAYSİMAŞ Since 2003 5 FACTORIES ADF, RAY KAYNAK, ÇAMAF, AFYONKARAHİSAR and SİVAS BETON TRAVERS
İSTANBUL SAMSUN ÇAMAF TÜVASAŞ H.PAŞA ADAPAZARI ÇANKIRI DERİNCE EUROTEM VADEMSAŞ BANDIRMA ANKARA RAYSİMAŞ ESKİŞEHİR TÜDEMSAŞ TÜLOMSAŞ TAŞIMACILIK A.Ş SİVAS SİVAS BT TRV ADF SİTAŞ AFYON İZMİR MALATYA IZBAN İZMİR AFYON BT TRV KONYA
ADANA
MERSİN
İSKENDERUN Conventional Lines High Speed Lines RAILWAYS IN TURKEY
5 VISION 2023 Targets
TARGET-1: To reach 25.403 km railway network in 2023 by expanding the current 1.213 km rapid+high speed line network to 13.647 km and 11.319 km conventional line network to 11.756 km within the target of creating a double line railway corridor in the axis of East-West and North-South as a supported of the Trans-Asia corridor.
EDİRNE
KIRKLARELİ ZONGULDAK SAMSUN TRABZON İSTANBUL KARABÜK KARS Karasu TEKİRDAĞ ÇANKIRI AMASYA GemlikİZMİT GÜMÜŞHANE Bandırma ÇORUM ERZURUM BURSA Turhal TOKAT IĞDIR BİLECİK ANKARA Aralık KIRIKKALE ERZİNCAN Dilucu Yenişehir SİVAS BALIKESİR ESKİŞEHİR Yerköy Çetinkaya Bergama Polatlı Nemrut KÜTAHYA KIRŞEHİR Palu MUŞ Çandarlı AFYONKARAHİSAR ELAZIĞ Gözertepe VAN MANİSA UŞAK NEVŞEHİR İZMİR KAYSERİ Salihli C.ovası AKSARAY MALATYA DİYARBAKIR SİİRT T.köy Eşme KONYA ADIYAMAN Selçuk BATMAN NİĞDE K.MARAŞ Kahta AYDIN ISPARTA Habur DENİZLİ BURDUR Ulukışla Nusaybin OSMANİYE MARDİN GAZİANTEP In Operation F.paşa KARAMAN ŞANLIURFA Under Construction ADANA ANTALYA MERSİN At Tendering Phase Manavgat İskenderun At Projecting Phase Other Survey and Project Studies Alanya Existing Conventional Lines 6 DEVELOPING RAILWAYS AS A STATE POLICY
✓ 1.870 km High Speed Line ✓ 1.290 km Rapid Line ✓ 811 km Conventional Line total 3971 km of railway lines are under construction.
Tendering Phase : 434 km Under Project Phase : 5.193 km Total=9.598 km
✓ The signalization of 2.385 km conventional lines are ongoing.
✓ The electrification works of 1.743 km conventional lines are ongoing.
✓ Until now 10.362 km of conventional lines are renovated.
✓ Between 2003 until the end of September 2017 totally 64.3 billion TL was invested in railways (with the prices of 2017).
7 INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS LOGISTIC CENTERS
The construction of 8 out of 21 logistics centers have been completed. 5 of them are under construction. 1 of them are ready for opening. Designing studies and construction tenders for 7 centers are going on.
Avrupa Yakası//İstanbul Gelemen/Samsun
Halkalı/İstanbul Köseköy/İzmit Kars
Bozüyük/Bilecik
Gökköy/Balıkesir Sivas Palandöken/Erzurum
Hasanbey/Eskişehir Uşak Boğazköprü/Kayseri
Tatvan/Bitlis Kayacık/Konya Kemalpaşa/İzmir Türkoğlu/Kahramanmaraş Habur AYGM Kaklık/Denizli Mardin In Operation (8) Karaman Ready for Opening (1) Yenice/Mersin Under Construction (5) Under Design Studies and Tender Phase (7) RAIL BORDER CROSSING
The border crossing stations of Turkey are:
• Bulgaria : Kapıkule
• Greece : Uzunköprü
• Syria : Nusaybin, Islahiye, Çobanbey (They are closed because of the political unrest in Syria)
• Iran : Kapıköy
• Armenia : Doğukapı (It is closed since 1993 because of the diplomatic problems with Armenia)
• Georgia: Canbaz İpek Demiryolu/Akhalkalaki
9 IMPROVING INFRASTURCTURE
Samsun-Kavqaz Kars-Tbili-Baku CHINA The Central and North East Asia Kars-Nahcevan-Iran EuropeMarmaray Samsun-Kavqaz
Tekirdag-Muratli Lake Van KarsNorth-Tbilisi Crossing-Baku Lake Van Marmaray Ferry Crossing Kars-Nahcevan-Iran
Tekirdag-Muratli Lake Van Crossing The South East Asia Kurtalan- Nusaybin- Iraq Kurtalan- Nusaybin- Iraq
The North Africa The Middle East
10 MARMARAY
The Marmaray was opened to passenger service on 29th October 2013. An avarage of 180.000 passengers are carried daily and from the opening until the end of 2017 222 million passengers traveled with Marmaray. Composed of 13.6 km İstanbul Strait crossing and a 76 km high-capacity line between Gebze and Halkalı. Construction works are continuing between Pendik and Halkalı and freight transportation will be put into service in 2018.
11 BAKU-TBILISI-KARS RAILWAY LINE PROJECT
The inauguration ceremony of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project took place in Alat Port of Baku, Azerbaijan on 30th October 2017.
With the commence of the freight operations in Marmaray in İstanbul, the connection of the countries in Middle Asia and Caucasus to European and world market will be possible. 12 LAKE VAN CROSSING
SULTAN ALPARSLAN FERRY PUT INTO OPERATION
Sultan Alparslan Ferry put into operation to provide freight and passenger services on Lake Van on 15th January 2018.
The ferry has the capacity of; - 4 tracks (125 meters each) total 500 meters, - 50 wagons, - 3.875 tonnes freight - 350 passengers.
The 136 meter long ferry is manufactured in Tatvan Shipyard in Van. The generators are produced by TÜLOMSAŞ which is an affiliated company of TCDD.
The manufacturing of the second ferry is still ongoing.
13 ECO ATI TRAIN
ECO Istanbul-Tehran-Ashgabat-Tashkent- Almaata Container Train • Started to operate on January 20, 2002. • The freight transport from Turkey to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan and Kazakhstan is still continuing. • is planned to run once in a week. • 3521 containers (6094 TEU) were transported by this train from different points of Turkey until now. • Construction products, cleaning materials, food products, paper and paper products, white goods, chemical products are transported.
14 ECO ITI TRAIN
ECO Islamabad-Tehran-İstanbul ITI Container Train - started its runs on August 14, 2009, - 14 commercial runs in total and 15 humanitarian relief trains for the flood disaster experienced in Pakistan. Total 29 trains - The last train was sent to Pakistan from Turkey on December 25, 2011, because of the delays reached to 35 days in Pakistan course; it has been given a break to the operation of the train.
-In order to re-start the operation of the train, it was decided to begin the operation in every 15 days reciprocally
-TCDD started marketing activities intensively in order to start to operate this train again.
- However, Pakistan informed that they could not find freight for the train to be sent from Islamabad and the train to be sent from Turkey was cancelled accordingly.
15 FACILITATION OF RAILWAY TRANSPORT
Challenges: • The duration of the transport is too long, • Lack of infrastructure facilities, • The waiting time for border-crossings is more than the planned time, • Technical problems caused by infrastructural differences (gauge differences) • Technical, administrative and sometimes security problems existed in the region, • Application of common regulations CIM/SMGS consignment notes Improvements: • Strong investment to the infrastructure (construction of new lines, electrification, signalization and rehabilitation of the existing lines) and developing ambitious projects • Overcoming the present bottlenecks, • Increasing the infrastructure capacity, • Using X-ray machines in order to shorten the waiting time for custom procedures, • Having a direct communication between railway undertakings, holding border commission meetings periodically.
16 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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