İzmir enjoys the advantage of being a significant export orientated city. It utilizes the benefits of its geographical position close to the markets of the European Union and those of the Near and Middle East and having Türkiye’s 2nd largest seaport, İzmir Alsancak Port.
İZMİR ALSANCAK PORT
- Second largest container handling capacity in Türkiye
- Multimodal facilities
- Railway and highway connections to Europe, Asia and the Middle East
- Rich agricultural and industrial hinterland
- Natural protection against sea and weather conditions
- Open to container, general, dry and liquid cargo ships as well as roll-on, roll-off and passenger vessels
- Continuous expeditions to all main ports of the world
- Annual capacity of 12 million tonnes
- The final handling capacity is to rise by 7 times due to the area expansion of 750.000 m²
- Handles 18% of total exports and 12% of total imports of Türkiye including 90% of all imports and exports from Türkiye’s Aegean region.
İZMİR ADNAN MENDERES AIRPORT
- Open to international flights
- 18 km from the city center
- Capacity of 9 million passengers per annum
- Total area 8.230.945m2
NORTH AEGEAN ÇANDARLI PORT (in the pipeline)
- A HUB port serving all major international sea lines
- Annual capacity of 20 million tonnes
- The final capacity is to be 10 million TEU
- Total area for the logistics and warehouse is 2 million m²
- General cargo, bulk, ro-ro and container transportation, especially for Panamax-Post Panamax type transit vessels
- The railway and roadway connections
- To be tendered as a BuildOperateTransfer project
- To be operational at the end of 2010
ÇEŞME RO-RO PORT
- Operated by Ulusoy Çeşme Liman İşletmesi A.Ş.
- 1,060 vessels per annum
- 300m quay in total
- Draft 8m
- Total area 25,152.50m2
- Destination Çeşme – Adriatic
DİKİLİ PORT
- Bulk freight port
- Loading capacity of 330,000 tonnes per annum
- Open to passenger vessels
ALİAĞA PORT
- 7 private berths
- Approximately 3,000 vessels per annum
- Bulk freights: oil, chemicals, fuel-oil, diesel, gas, asphalt, naphta, metal, iron, copper, grain, salt, etc.
AEGEAN RAILWAY NETWORK
- The largest network in Türkiye
- Connected to Europe, Asia and the Middle East
- Connected to the Izmir Alsancak Port
- Access to all cities and important districts in the Aegean region of Türkiye
- Passenger, bulk, container and general cargo transportation
HIGHWAYS
- Connection to Europe, Asia and the Middle East
- İzmir Ringroad, İzmir – Aydın and İzmir – Çeşme Highways with international standards
- İzmir – İstanbul, İzmir – Ankara, İzmir – Çanakkale Highway Projects
