Carrying capacity

by Peter Grimsditch April 10, 2009

written by Peter Grimsditch April 10, 2009

Turkey has high hopes of becoming a major transit hub for land and sea cargo freighting, linking Central Asia and the Middle East with Europe, though it will need to invest heavily in infrastructure if its hopes are to be fulfilled. The transport grid already has around 11,000 kilometers (km) of rail lines; 430,000km of roads, including 62,000km of motorways and main roads; a network of ports along its Black Sea, Aegean and Mediterranean coasts and at least one airport in each of its 81 provinces. Even so, the results of a joint study conducted by the European Commission and Turkey’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, released in 2008, showed Turkey has a long way to go before its transport network can service the future needs of the economy. The Transport Infrastructure Need Assessment (TINA) said priority should be given to improving transport in the North-South and East-West axes to

Peter Grimsditch

Journalist, editor, and author Peter Grimsditch’s career began at his college's student publication and led him to become the founding editor of Britain’s Daily Star. He later worked in New York and Turkey as as a correspondent, eventually becoming the No. 2 editor at Lebanon’s Daily Star before inheriting the editorship.

Carrying capacity

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