Session 4: Status of Cross-border Rail Transport Connectivity including Transit Facilitation in Southern Asia: Country Presentations TURKEY

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1 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

2 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY NETWORK BEFORE REPUBLIC PERIOD km MAINLINE EARLY YEARS OF REPUBLIC ( ) km MAINLINE (Avarage 134 km) FROM 1951 TILL THE END OF km MAINLINE (Avarage 18 km) km MAINLINE (Avarage 150 km) RAILWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION km MAINLINE Km Existing Network Lenght : Km EDİRNE ZONGULDAK TEKİRDAĞ Bandırma BALIKESİR İSTANBUL İZMİT BİLECİK BURSA ESKİŞEHİR ÇANKIRI ANKARA KIRIKKALE SAMSUN AMASYA SİVAS ERZİNCAN ERZURUM KARS İZMİR AFYON MANİSA UŞAK AYDIN DENİZLİ BURDUR POLATLI KONYA ISPARTA KARAMAN NİĞDE KAYSERİ K.MARAŞ OSMANİYE ADANA ELAZIĞ MALATYA GAZİANTEP DİYARBAKIR MARDİN MUŞ BATMAN VAN MERSİN 2

3 CURRENT STATUS - RAILWAY NETWORK Total Lines, Length of Electrified and Signaled Lines Total Railway Network km High Speed Lines km Conventional Lines km Signaled Lines (% 44) km Electrified Lines (% 35) km 3

4 TURKISH STATE RAILWAYS 8 REGIONAL DIRECTORATES 7 PORTS 4 AFFILIATED COMPANIES İSTANBUL, ANKARA(2), İZMİR, SİVAS, MALATYA, ADANA, AFYON H.PAŞA, İZMİR (State Fund),(MERSİN, İSKENDERUN, SAMSUN, BANDIRMA and DERİNCE -the right to operation is transferred) TCDD TAŞIMACILIK A.Ş., TÜLOMSAŞ, TÜVASAŞ, TÜDEMSAŞ 5 PARTNERSHIPS EUROTEM, İZBAN, VADEMSAŞ, SİTAŞ, RAYSİMAŞ Since FACTORIES ADF, RAY KAYNAK, ÇAMAF, AFYONKARAHİSAR and SİVAS BETON TRAVERS BANDIRMA İSTANBUL H.PAŞA DERİNCE TÜLOMSAŞ ÇAMAF TÜVASAŞ ADAPAZARI ÇANKIRI EUROTEM VADEMSAŞ ANKARA ESKİŞEHİR RAYSİMAŞ TAŞIMACILIK A.Ş ADF SAMSUN SİVAS BT TRV TÜDEMSAŞ SİVAS İZMİR İZMİR IZBAN AFYON AFYON BT TRV KONYA SİTAŞ MALATYA ADANA MERSİN İSKENDERUN Conventional Lines High Speed Lines

5 RAILWAYS IN TURKEY 5

6 VISION 2023 Targets TARGET-1: To reach km railway network in 2023 by expanding the current km rapid+high speed line network to km and km conventional line network to 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 Bergama Nemrut Çandarlı İZMİR C.ovası İSTANBUL TEKİRDAĞ Bandırma Gemlik İZMİT BURSA BALIKESİR T.köy Selçuk KIRKLARELİ AFYONKARAHİSAR MANİSA UŞAK Salihli Eşme Yenişehir KÜTAHYA AYDIN DENİZLİ BURDUR ANTALYA BİLECİK Karasu ESKİŞEHİR ISPARTA ZONGULDAK ANKARA KONYA Polatlı KARABÜK AKSARAY KARAMAN Manavgat Alanya ÇANKIRI KIRIKKALE KIRŞEHİR MERSİN SAMSUN ÇORUM Turhal Yerköy NEVŞEHİR KAYSERİ ADANA AMASYA TOKAT SİVAS NİĞDE K.MARAŞ Ulukışla OSMANİYE İskenderun Çetinkaya F.paşa ERZİNCAN GAZİANTEP ELAZIĞ MALATYA ADIYAMAN Kahta TRABZON GÜMÜŞHANE ŞANLIURFA ERZURUM Palu DİYARBAKIR MARDİN Gözertepe BATMAN MUŞ Nusaybin KARS SİİRT IĞDIR Aralık Dilucu Habur VAN In Operation Under Construction At Tendering Phase At Projecting Phase Other Survey and Project Studies Existing Conventional Lines 6

7 DEVELOPING RAILWAYS AS A STATE POLICY km High Speed Line km Rapid Line 811 km Conventional Line total 3971 km of railway lines are under construction. Tendering Phase : 434 km Under Project Phase : km Total=9.598 km The signalization of km conventional lines are ongoing. The electrification works of km conventional lines are ongoing. Until now 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

8 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 Uşak Hasanbey/Eskişehir Boğazköprü/Kayseri Kemalpaşa/İzmir AYGM Kayacık/Konya Türkoğlu/Kahramanmaraş Tatvan/Bitlis Habur Kaklık/Denizli Mardin In Operation (8) Ready for Opening (1) Under Construction (5) Under Design Studies and Tender Phase (7) Karaman Yenice/Mersin

9 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

10 CHINA IMPROVING INFRASTURCTURE Samsun-Kavqaz Kars-Tbili-Baku EuropeMarmaray Samsun-Kavqaz The Central and North East Asia Kars-Nahcevan-Iran Tekirdag-Muratli Tekirdag-Muratli Marmaray Lake Van Kars-Tbilisi-Baku North Crossing Kars-Nahcevan-Iran Lake Van Ferry Crossing Lake Van Crossing The South East Asia Kurtalan- Nusaybin- Iraq Kurtalan- Nusaybin- Iraq The North Africa The Middle East 10

11 MARMARAY The Marmaray was opened to passenger service on 29th October An avarage of passengers are carried daily and from the opening until the end of 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

12 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 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

13 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 The ferry has the capacity of; - 4 tracks (125 meters each) total 500 meters, - 50 wagons, tonnes freight 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

14 ECO ATI TRAIN ECO Istanbul-Tehran-Ashgabat-Tashkent- Almaata Container Train Started to operate on January 20, The freight transport from Turkey to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan and Kazakhstan is still continuing. is planned to run once in a week 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

15 ECO Islamabad-Tehran-İstanbul ITI Container Train - started its runs on August 14, 2009, ECO ITI TRAIN - 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

16 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

17 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! TEŞEKKÜRLER! 17