$200-BILLION TRANSPORT INVESTMENT PLANS

Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım announced that Türkiye’s ambitious trade and growth targets make the $200 million-worth infrastructure investments a must, and require a doubling of the investments made up to today. on the final day of the three-day Transportation, Maritime and Communication Council. The government will undertake around $120 billion of these investments at the issue, while the remaining $80 billion will be carried out through the Build-Operate-Transfer model or private-public partnerships, Yıldırım said.