Çerkezköy-Kapıkule High Speed ​​Train Line opens | Erdoğan: Travel time will decrease to 1 hour and 30 minutes

The Çerkezköy-Kapıkule stage of the Halkalı-Kapıkule High Speed ​​Train Line is put into service. The opening ceremony, attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, takes place in Babaeski. Erdoğan is giving a speech here.

Highlights from President Erdoğan's speech are as follows:

"- We have extended our high-speed train network from Çerkezköy to Kapıkule. I would like to express this here with pleasure. With the commissioning of our project, a new era will begin in which we will see its effects in a wide area. The travel time between Halkalı-Kapıkule will decrease from 4 hours to 1 hour 30 minutes. The freight transportation time will decrease from 8 hours 30 minutes to 3 hours 30 minutes. The capacity of the railway line will approximately quadruple.

- We expect the annual passenger capacity to increase to 3 million and the cargo capacity to 9.5 million tons. This means; Transportation will be faster, logistics will be stronger, travel time will be reduced. As a result, production, exports, employment, trade and tourism will increase. Our project will make significant contributions to the Turkish economy.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the project, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said, "As both Türkiye and the European Union, we have put in serious time, effort and effort at all levels." he said.

Explaining that the line will connect both continents and Türkiye and the European Union, Uraloğlu said, "We will continue to work together with the European Union to further our cooperation in this project." he said.