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Third airport in Istanbul to become cargo transportation center

Business Materials 19 September 2018 20:38 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 19

By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:

The third airport in Istanbul, to be commissioned on October 29, 2018, will become the cargo transportation center, the Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure told Trend Sept. 19.

Presently, such cargo companies as UPS, DHL, and FedEx appealed to the management of the third airport with a request to open their representative offices at the airport.

"At the new airport, 3,500 flights can be daily carried out," the ministry said. “There will be a hotel and parking for 25,000 cars in the territory of the airport.”

The first control flight was carried out at the third airport in Istanbul on May 29 under the control of the General Directorate of State Airports Authority of Turkey (DHMI). The testing of the first flight in the third airport was held successfully.

The third airport is being built near the Lake Terkos in northern Istanbul. After commissioning, the number of flight destinations in Turkey will increase from 282 to 350.

Under the project, the first runway of the new airport will be 3.7 kilometers long and 60 meters wide. The second runway will be 4.1 kilometers long and 60 meters wide.

Construction and assembling work has been completed to build 143 bridges and a hydrometeorological tower at the airport. More than 31,000 employees are involved in the construction.

About 300 passenger and service elevators will be installed at Istanbul’s third airport.

Airport City, which will include a network of shops, logistics and exhibition centers, will be also built at the new airport. Limak-Kolin-Cengiz-MaPa-Kalyon consortium of companies won the tender for construction of the airport.

The construction will cost 10 billion Turkish liras, the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications told Trend earlier.

Turkey’s Ziraat Bankasi allocated 1.54 billion euros for the airport’s construction, while Halkbank and Vakifbank – 1 billion euros, Denizbank – 500 million euros, Garanti and Finansbank – 300 million euros each in October 2017.

The first airport in Turkey was built in 1912 and was used for military purposes.

For the first time the Istanbul airport was opened for international flights in 1953 and in 1985 it was renamed in honor of founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

($1 = 6.3750 TRY on Sept. 19)

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