RAIL SYSTEM PROJECTS ABROAD CONTINUE AT FULL SPEED IN 2023 – Dr. İlhami Pektaş

VEHICLE PRODUCTION

BOZANKAYA will manufacture the remaining 6 of the 16 trams for Iasi and the remaining 24 of the 40 trams for Timisoara, and ship these vehicles to Romania. The new generation of European Innovation award-winning Trams shipped to Timisoara can reach a range of 70 km with its battery without a catenary.

DURMAZLAR, on the other hand, has completed the shipment of three of the 13 bi-directional Reverans brand Trams whose tender was won for Resita/Romania, and will manufacture and ship the rest to Romania this year. DURMAZLAR also continues to produce high-speed train bogies for Alstom and ship them in batches.

11 maintenance vehicles being manufactured by TÜRASAŞ in Eskişehir will run on Swiss railways. Prototyping of the vehicles continues. Two prototypes of the maintenance vehicles, where testing and homologation works are carried out together with Swiss railways, are planned to be delivered this year.

WAGON PRODUCTION

All our wagon manufacturers are fully working on exports by increasing their annual capacity. There is an annual market of approximately USD 12 billion in the new freight wagon market worldwide and an annual market of approximately USD 9 billion in maintenance, repair and renovation works. Nearly half of the 800,000 freight wagons currently available in Europe need refurbishment. If our wagon manufacturers can utilize their high production capability in these markets, Türkiye can become an export base for rail wagon production in a short time. Considering that our country needs at least 30,000 wagons by 2035, we can say that wagon investments will increase further in the coming years and Türkiye will become a wagon production center.

Container wagons produced by VAKO VAGON are used on the railways of various countries including Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands. VAKO plans to produce 1000 wagons for 8 different clients in 2023 with its 5 factories in Temelli and Beypazarı in Ankara.

Taking place in the railway industry in 2016 with RC INDUSTRY, ERCİYAS ⁠HOLDING has become a significant exporter of Türkiye in all kinds of freight wagons, passenger wagons, bogie production and service services. pursuing its activities in Sakarya and Sivas, ERCİYAS WAGON GROUP aims to be Türkiye’s export leader and rank among Europe’s leading producers in this field by making new investments in Eskişehir and Kayseri. With investments, ERCİYAS Holding aims to be the leader by increasing its share in the European wagon market of 30,000 units per year. The company is working on 4 new wagon types within the scope of exports.

Founded in 1980, GÖK GROUP launched GÖK RAIL brand in 2008. In 2020, the company ranked among the top 1000 in Türkiye’s export rankings. Aiming at manufacturing approximately 1000 freight wagons in 2023 with the new investments in recent years in Sivas Demirağ OIZ⁠ and the 1^st OIZ, GÖK⁠RAIL increases its exports each year by producing various types of wagons for several countries including France, England, Germany, Austria, India, Poland and Russia.

Founded in 1992 in Eskişehir, ESRAY produces special and standard types of freight wagons, freight wagon chassis, bogies and superstructure equipment for the railway sector. ESRAY exports about 70% of its production to Germany, USA, Switzerland, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, France, Egypt, South Africa and Azerbaijan.

Founded in 2006 in Kayseri to produce freight wagons and spare parts, RAILTUR today manufactures Y25 type freight wagon bogies, tram and metro wagon bogies, EMU bogies and various types of freight wagons and spare parts. Manufacturing approximately 2500 units of Y25 type bogies per year, RAILTUR exports almost all of its production.

Epsilon NDT manufactures in two locations in Eskişehir Organized Industrial Zone. Starting with Solentek in 2010, the company exports 95% of its production to Europe including the chassis and superstructures of various types of container wagons and steel coil transport wagons, as well as the design and production of specific freight wagon chassis, automobile transport wagon, ballast transport wagon, switch transport wagon.

ACARLAR Vagon was established in Afyon in 2011. In addition to the maintenance, registration and revision works of wagons, locomotives and railway machines, the company carries out locomotive bogie assembly-disassembly and sub-maintenance operations, and it conducts wheel body replacement of freight and passenger wagons, locomotives and railway machines along with lathe and junction box maintenance operations in the wheel maintenance facility with an annual capacity of 15,000 unit.

RAYVAG Vagon was established in Adana OIZ in 2007. The company provides wagon manufacturing, maintenance, repair and revision services. In 2018, it was acquired by GREENBRIER-ASTRARAIL, one of the largest wagon manufacturers in Europe, and received the title GREENBRIER RAYVAG.The company produces completely export-oriented products.

Companies in Sakarya including ÖZBİR Vagon, YAVUZLAR Vagon, SAVASAŞ Vagon, AKÇELİK, YÜCESAN, DEMİRELLER, INOTRA and ALNAL conduct the production of passenger wagons; maintenance, repair, modernization and spare part works of all kinds of conventional passenger wagons and work export-oriented.

OUR ONGOING RAIL SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ABROAD

• Poland : Krakow Tram 4th Section (Meissnera-Mistrzejowice) Construction work / PPP Solutions Polska (Poland) + GÜLERMAK HEAVY INDUSTRY
• Poland : Annopol Tram Warehouse Site Design and Construction Works/ ZUE SA(Poland) + YÖRÜK CONSTRUCTION
• Poland: Warsaw Metro Line II: 3.92-kilometer-long Design and Construction Works including C3 Lazurowa, C2 Chrzanów, C1 Karolin Stations and Warehouse Site/ GÜLERMAK + Astaldi (Italy)
• Poland: Wilczak-Naramowice Tram Line and Nowa Naramowicka Transfer Point Construction/ GÜLERMAK + Mosty Łódź (Poland)
• Romania: M6 Metro Henri Coandă International Airport Connection construction work/ ALSİM ALARKO + MAKYOL CONSTRUCTION
• Slovenia : Divača-Koper Railway, Section 1 Divača-Crni Kal Second Railway Line construction work/ YAPI ⁠MERKEZİ + ÖZALTIN CONSTRUCTION + KOLEKTOR CPG (Slovenia)
• Slovenia : Divača-Koper Railway, Section 2 Crni Kal-Koper Second Railway Line construction works/YAPI MERKEZİ CONSTRUCTION + ÖZALTIN CONSTRUCTION + KOLEKTOR CPG (Slovenia)
• Macedonia: Corridor VIII Railway Section 1: Kumanovo-Baljakovce (Lot 1) and Section 2: Beljakovce-Kriva Palanka (Lot 2) and Corridor X Nogaevci-Negotino Section Line construction works/ GÜLERMAK HEAVY INDUSTRY
• Bulgaria: Sofia-Plovdiv Railway Line: Modernization of Elin Pelin- Kostenets Section, Lot 1/ CENGİZ İNŞAAT + DUYGU ENGINEERING
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Llidza-Hrasnica Tram Line Construction Work / YAPI ⁠MERKEZİ
• Croatia : Modernization of Krizevci-Koprivnica-Hungary Border Railway Line Construction work/ CENGİZ İNŞAAT
• Tanzania : Dar es Salaam-Mwanza Railway Line, Section 4: Tabora-Isaac Design and Construction

Work / YAPI⁠ MERKEZİ

• Tanzania : Design and Construction of Makutupora-Tabora Railway Line (Section 3)/YAPI⁠ MERKEZİ
• Tanzania : Morogoro-Makutupora Railway Line Design and Construction Work (Section 2) / YAPI⁠ MERKEZİ
• Tanzania : Design and Construction of the Dar es Salaam-Morogoro Railway Line (Section 1) /HEADQUARTERS + MOTA ENGIL (Portugal)
• India : Tunnel Design and Construction work within the scope of Kanpur Metro Project Corridor 1/SAM INDIA (India) + GÜLERMAK
• India : Surat Metro CS2 (Phase 1) Construction/ GÜLERMAK + SAM INDIA BUILTWELL (India)
• India : Delhi MRTS Phase 4: Extension of Line 8 (Magenta Line), Janakpuri West – RK Ashram (3rd Package) construction work/ SAM INDIA BUILTWELL (India) + GULERMAK