The Good News of Samsun High Speed Train Arrived from the Minister: Samsun-Amasya-Çorum-Kırıkkale high-speed train line will be carried out mainly by cargo and passengers. Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Feridun Bilgin, the national railway, national high-speed train, the tools for systems such as national subway cars, vehicles of important policies said they made an effort to implement for the production in Turkey.
Bilgin, EU Delegation to Turkey Union, Eskişehir EU Information Centers Eskişehir Chamber of Commerce (ETO) held at a hotel in collaboration with the Eskişehir "by EU Perspective Eskisehir Aviation and Rail Systems Vision Meeting" in his speech at the voiced his satisfaction from making meeting.
Bilgin continued:
“Within the framework of our vision for 2023, in addition to the roads we have built within the framework of 12 thousand kilometers of fast and high-speed railway construction, these roads will be extended from Edirne to Kars, as well as Ankara-İzmir, Ankara-Bursa, Yerköy-Kayseri-Ulukışla, Samsun-Amasya. -Çorum-Kırıkkale, Yozgat-Sivas-Erzincan-Erzurum-Kars, Konya-Karaman-Ulukışla-Mersin-Adana-Gaziantep-Şanlıurfa-Habur, Eskişehir will become the center of the fast and high-speed train line network in our country when we complete the construction of high-speed railway lines. . We will not make future investments for passengers only. These high-speed train lines will be carried out mainly by freight and passengers. "
- "We aim to make the national signal system a brand"
Minister Bilgin emphasized that Eskişehir reinforces its identity of being a railway and aviation city with its new roads, its role as a crossroads in train lines, universities, colleges for rail systems and aviation departments, TÜLOMSAŞ, TAI, Alp Aviation, industry, railway and aviation city.
Stating that they are aware of the point Eskişehir has reached in the aviation and railway sectors with the synergy created by companies such as TÜLOMSAŞ and TUSAŞ, Bilgin continued his words as follows:
“The rail industry market in the world today has a potential of over $ 1 trillion in the short and medium term. We continue our work rapidly in line with the goals we set for the indigenization and development of the railway industry. In this context, we aim to spread the national signal system developed in the coming years and make it a brand. In the same process, we plan to produce all kinds of railway vehicles in our country. We are making great efforts to implement important policies for the production of tools and vehicles for all these systems, such as national trains, national high-speed trains, national metro vehicles, in our country. Turkey, as consumers, not producers in this market, we are conducting the necessary studies to rapidly become an important export countries, not bought. We are also aware of how important the Rail Systems Cluster in Eskişehir is for our future work. "
Domestic Production
Bilgin, the development of individuals or institutions can not be provided by the effort alone, stating that for the development of the division of labor, cooperation, working culture together said.
Referring to the initiation of the national train project by the companies, universities and institutions affiliated to the ministry in Eskişehir, Bilgin said:
“In this context, a local company realized the concept design of the National High Speed Train Set. We continue to work on the service procurement tender for industrial and engineering detail design. Its tender will be held in the coming months. In addition, we will seek a minimum 80 percent localization requirement in the procurement of 53 high-speed train sets, which we will tender in the coming days. In addition, we will ask foreign companies to buy at least 25 percent local partners and at the end of this tender, we will ask for the transfer rights of the licenses of the trains we will purchase. We now, for the high-speed train sets in Turkey we aim to make purchases last we get outside. Concept design of the new generation national electric-diesel train set was also made. We have also started industrial and engineering detail design studies. We have also realized the concept design of the new generation national freight wagon. In the medium term, we plan to put our national diesel sets, national high-speed train and national freight car into service in this country. "
Minister Bilgin, paving the way for the sector by reminding that they make some legal arrangements, said that the work continues.
Noting that one of the most important legal regulations in this context is the liberalization of railway transportation, Bilgin said, “In this law, the preparation of the relevant secondary legislation is at its final stage. "We will soon be publishing the second legislation, removing all obstacles to the liberalization of the sector, especially for transportation."
Aviation industry
Bilgin stated that the dynamism of the aviation industry will be one of the important determinants of the country's potential in general. Information about the future of aviation will be one of the most important indicators of Turkey, he said:
“From this point of view, we are in an effort to prepare the strong future of our country by activating the full potential of our civil aviation. We have successfully completed the airline and service sector of our Turkish aviation. In parallel with this, we want to crown our developments in this sector by taking the industry and production side to the highest levels. We are aware that TAI and Alp Aviation established in Eskişehir and the subsidiary industry around them will play very important roles in our work for the future. Aviation companies in Eskişehir have made very important contributions to our projects such as ANKA, HÜRKUŞ and ATAK, which have been carried out so far, and they will be very important in our future work. The development of aviation in the coming period our most important areas of design and construction is carried out in Turkey our national regional plane. "
Following the speech, ETO President Metin Güler presented the certificate of the tree planted in his name to Minister Bilgin. Later, Bilgin listened to the panel on "Current Trends in Aviation and Rail Systems".