Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure 766 hectares and the projected foundation was laid by 2,5 years ago, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's 2nd airport Rize- built on the sea fills 52 percent of Artvin Airport were completed.
In the construction of the Rize-Artvin Airport, which was designed by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure in Yeşilköy, Pazar district of Rize, on 766 hectares and was laid by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 3, 2017, 266 million tons in 88,5 hectares of land for sea embankment. stone will be used. The sea embankment continues in the area where 150 trucks are transported day and night. In addition to trucks, 2 excavation ships are also used in the works. In the airport construction, where approximately 120 thousand tons of filling is made daily, runway filling process continues. The stones transported by trucks from Kanlımezra, which is 3 kilometers away from the project site, and Tektaş quarries, 7 kilometers away, are poured into the sea by the connection road.
Stones filled into trucks on excavation vessels are discharged into the sea at a depth of 28 meters in the open. The interior area of the mender will be approximately 2 million square meters and a total of 2 million 400 thousand square meters of sea fill will be made. In the project, 52 percent of which has been completed, it is planned to start foundation, sub-foundation and pavement manufacturing in the runway, apron and taxiway areas, where dredging and filling production continues. The infrastructure works of Rize-Artvin Airport, which is expected to be used by 2020 million passengers per year, will cost 3 billion 1 million liras.
Rize and Artvin Airport in the number of rare in the world, Turkey's second airport fill the sea. There is a total filling area of 2 million 600 thousand square meters. 85 million 500 thousand tons of filling will be made at the airport. Around 300 machines operate 24 hours a day to do this job.
Rize-Artvin Airport will also contribute greatly to tourism. With the airport, the Black Sea plateaus will become a much more accessible area. It will have many services to the region in terms of trade, transportation and logistics. Ovit Tunnel, thought to be integrated with the airport, has been completed. İyidere logistics port starts this year. Now the products of the East and South East will reach the logistics port and airport in Iyidere in a much shorter time than before. From here, a much more intense transportation, tourism and trade is planned to the Caucasian and Asian countries.
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