The First Steering Committee Meeting of “Strengthening Intermodal Transport Services in Turkish Railway Sector (U-IMT)” Project Was Held
The first Steering Committee Meeting of the "Strengthening Intermodal
Transport Services in the Turkish Railway Sector" (U-IMT), supported by
the European Union and the Republic of Türkiye under the Sectoral Operational
Programme for Transport, of which the Strategy Development Directorate of the
Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure is the end beneficiary, was
successfully completed.
The stakeholders
of the project, the Directorate General for European Union Affairs and
Foreign Relations Department of European Union Investments, the Directorate General of Infrastructure, the Directorate General of Transportation Services
Regulation, Turkish State
Railways (TCDD), TCDD
Transport and European Union Delegation to Türkiye officials with private
transport carriers and freight forwarders, private sector investors in transport facilities, national clusters and
associations dealing with multimodal freight activities in Türkiye attended the meeting
held in Ankara on April 5, 2023. On behalf of the Contracting Authority, the Head of Operating Structure and Director General for EU Affairs and
Foreign Relations, Mr Burak AYKAN, Head of Department for EU Investments, Ms Dr
Tijen İĞCİ and Contract Manager, Mr Tunç DEMİREL participated in the meeting.
As the end beneficiary of the project, Head of Strategy Development
Directorate, Dr Yunus Emre AYÖZEN chaired the meeting and gave the floor to the
U-IMT Project’s technical team to present the progress and the data collected
from the beginning of the project.
Ms Aslı GÜLGÖR, Project Director, Mr Salvatore D'ALFONSO, Team Leader of
the U-IMT Project, Mr Tom KENNEDY, the key expert of the project, transport
economist Mr Peter BURGESS, railway infrastructure expert Mr Türker AHİ, and
training needs assessment expert Mr Mehmet Nadir ERHAN made their presentations
on the progress of the Project.
The meeting ended with a question and answer session.