ISTANBUL celebrated the opening of its first driverless metro line and the second metro line on the Asian side of the city on December 15, when president Mr Recep Erdoğan attended the inauguration Line M5.
HYUNDAI-Rotem, Korea, has received a Won 156.5bn ($US 143m) contract to supply 120 cars for operation on the new Line M7 of the Istanbul metro.
TURKEY’s transport, maritime affairs and communications minister Mr Ahmet Arslan says that the long-delayed second phase of the Marmaray project in Istanbul will now be completed next year.
EUROTEM, the Turkish joint venture of Hyundai Rotem and Tüvasaş, has delivered the first of 17 trains for Istanbul metro Line M2.
ISTANBUL Metropolitan Municipality has launched a tender for a contract to supply 30 four-car trains for two new metro lines in the city.
A contract for the construction of two sections of metro line on the Asian side of Istanbul was signed in the presence of the city’s mayor Mr Kadir Topbaş at a ceremony in Saraçhane on May 5.
THE City of Istanbul has issued a tender for 50 new four-car metro trains for Istanbul Metro.
ISTANBUL has moved a step closer to its target of completing 400km of metro line by 2019 with the opening of the 4.5km extension of Line M4 from Kartal to Kaynarca.
ISTANBUL Metropolitan Municipality has awarded Hyundai Rotem a Won 359bn ($US 316m) contract to supply 300 driverless metro cars for the city's rapidly-expanding urban rail network.
TURKISH State Railways (TCDD) confirmed to IRJ on April 6 that it is planning to start operations on the second phase of the Marmaray project in Istanbul in the first half of 2017.