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Started the construction of the new port of Türkmenbasy, on the Sea Caspian
It will be realized over two years
August 22, 2013
In the day of mid-August holiday to Türkmenbasy, turkmen city on the coast of the Sea Caspian, is inaugurated the yard for the construction of a new international port to the presence of the president of the Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, and of the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
The work, entrusted to the Turk Gap Insaat in quality of general contractor, will last two years. The port will be equipped of docks, for a total of 3,6 linear, destined kilometers mainly to the traffic of the container, with the realization of a terminal with a line of dock of 515 linear meters that will have an ability to 400.000 container per year teu, and to the traffic of the ferries (75,000 abilities trailer) and of the passengers (ability 300,000 people). Moreover the harbour complex, that it will occupy a total surface of 1,2 million square metres, will include docks for the goods conventional and the bulk let alone structures and systems for the construction and the naval repair. To the German society Inros Kackner AG the supervision on the state of advance of the work is entrusted.
In the course of the inaugural ceremony president Berdimuhammedow has emphasized that the new international marine port will allow to develop to the economic and commercial cooperation between Asia and Europe, giving a strong impulse to the interregional relations, and will offer the opportunity to optimize the flow of the traffics in the eurasiatic space. Moreover - it has added - the new port will supply ulterior hard an impulse to the economic progress of the Turkmenistan and Turkey, to the development of industrial infrastructures and of transport, to the creation of places of work and will contribute also to attract important investments.
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