Ankara, Turkey (PortSEurope) November 13, 2022 – The Kanal Istanbul project to include a large logistics port on he Black Sea, according to Adil Karaismailoğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure. He said this during an update of various ministry projects.
Kanal Istanbul is a 45 km canal, an artificial sea-level waterway, will be built in Istanbul’s Kucukcekmece-Sazlidere-Durusu corridor. It will run roughly parallel to the Bosphorus Strait. It is projected to have a capacity of 160 vessel transits a day. This is similar to the current volume of traffic through the Bosphorus, where traffic congestion leaves ships queuing for days off to transit the strait. However, transit through the man-made Kanal Istanbul would be regulated by Turkey, not the international Montreux Convention which governs the Bosphorus Strait.
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The minister said that the future logistics port will be a big 600 million-ton port similar to Singapore. We will build Kanal Istanbul without burdening the general budget.
No further details about the proposed port were released.
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