Minister Zafer Caglayan: Railways to be state's own

Minister of Economy Zafer Çağlayan said, “We open the railway transportation to the private sector, the railways being the property of the state. Good luck to you. Come, establish your own company, move it cheaper. Get it for you. ”
“We open railway transportation to the private sector” -
Noting that they do very important work in logistics Caglayan, said:
“We will build 2023 thousand kilometers of new railways by 10, we will overhaul existing railways and only $ 110 billion will be spent for this. Energy will invest 130 billion dollars for Turkey. In so doing, Turkey will do two of the world's 10 largest ports, and here we will make a transshipment center.
We will reduce the logistics costs in your trade. We reached an agreement with our Minister of Transportation. We shook hands, agreed. I asked him. 'Our companies are rightfully complaining about freight charges. At this point, we make a special price for domestic transportation as TCDD, and with this price, we will bring the railway transportation into a system that will increase the competitiveness of our companies at least. We have reached an oral agreement with our dear minister. Now, our undersecretaries will meet in a few days and TCDD will bring such an ease to you upon the instructions of the minister. We are doing another important work. We open the railway transportation to the private sector, the railways being the property of the state. Come, establish your own company, move it cheaper. Get it for you. We also put an important detail about this in the Incentive System. We also provide 5th region support for investments that make rail and sea freight and passenger transportation.