TCDD Transportation General Manager Ufuk Yalçın, accompanied by Deputy General Managers Erol Arıkan, Şinasi Kazancıoğlu, and the heads of departments, made examinations on the Ankara-Sivas High Speed Train Line, which is only a few days away from its opening. Starting from Kırıkkale, he made investigations and received information about the works at the stations and stations between Ankara and Sivas.
Speaking during his inspections at Yozgat High Speed Train Station, General Manager Ufuk Yalçın emphasized the importance of the Ankara-Sivas High Speed Train line, days before its opening, and said:
“Ankara-Sivas High Speed Train Project This important project, implemented under the leadership of our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will be one of the locomotive projects of the Turkish Century. With the vision of our Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Mr. Adil Karaismailoğlu, the project bearing the seal of our Ministry will be put into service soon and we will welcome our passengers at these stations and host them on our trains. In order to provide better quality service to our citizens, we will make our planning in our stations in line with a standard. For this, we have to work hard beforehand,” he said.
“Ankara-Sivas High Speed Train Line will make a great contribution to the region”
In addition, TCDD Transportation General Manager Ufuk Yalçın, who met with the railwaymen in Sivas at iftar, underlined in his speech that the opening of the Ankara-Sivas High Speed Train Line would make a great contribution to this region and continued his words as follows:
“About ten days ago, we came together at a meeting on the five-year strategic plan, and we added our target to be one of the top five companies in transportation in Europe by the end of the next five years, to our strategic goals for these five years. We can certainly achieve this, as long as we embrace it, believe it, and strive for it as a whole, as a team.”
“The target of transporting 2035 million tons of freight in the railway sector in 220 has been set”
Yalçın said that in a meeting on Intermodal Transportation organized by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, the target of 2035 million tons of freight transport in the railway sector was set in 220 and that resource planning should be done to reach this target.
“It is aimed to transport 2035 million tons of cargo in 220 and 2053 million tons in 448. These goals are big targets and we need resources to reach them. We need to increase our towing and towed vehicles and modernize the existing ones. In addition, we must prepare and work to use our resources efficiently with a good planning.”
Stating that they are working to open a separate parenthesis to customer satisfaction, General Manager Yalçın emphasized that the Customer Services Department was established recently and that this unit will be a unit that only deals with the customer and carries out the relations of the customer with the institution. Stating that they will cooperate more with international associations, General Manager Yalçın said:
“We have to carry out our public transportation activities in line with the criteria of the International Union of Public Transporters (UITP). Here, important duties fall not only on us, but also on TCDD. We can compare all our activities that we will do in line with UITP rules with all the institutions in the world that do the same job as us. We can see and make up for our shortcomings. Thus, we can provide better quality, more beautiful and world-class service to our citizens.”