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SUMP for Trabzon 5th Project Steering Committee Meeting was Held

The Project Steering Committee which monitors the progress of the Sustainable Urban Transport Plan for Trabzon Project, which started in June 2023 within the scope of the Turkey-EU financial cooperation under the Sectoral Operational Programme for Transport (USOP), met for the fifth time on 13 November 2024 at Trabzon Metropolitan Municipality’s premises.

The meeting was hosted by Gürkan Üçüncü, the Secretary General of the Trabzon Metropolitan Municipality with the participation Tijen İğci (PhD), Head of Department for EU Investments on behalf of the Contracting Authority, Akif Türkel, Representative of the EU Delegation to Türkiye, Adem Koç, Contract Manager, Chief of Financial Management Unit, İsmail Abacı.

Information on the progress of the project’s completed and ongoing works were presented by Jose Laffond YGES, the Project Team Leader from the TYPSA & Boğaziçi Proje & KAISER Engineering consortium.

Following the project’ progress presentation, participants discussed the planned and targeted activities within the project scope. Additionally, a detailed assessment was conducted regarding the commmon vision and scenarios. Information was provided on the upcoming study visit to Madrid and Malaga, Spain, scheduled for November 25-30 2024 as part of the project's next phases. Subsequently, a detailed timeline for the remaining phases of the project was presented, and the meeting concluded with a Q&A session.

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