TRANSPORTATION
Transportation and communications are the key target sectors in the globalization policies of governments. Turkey’s natural bridge position in the framework of the integration of Eastern Europe and new emerging markets of Caucasus and Central Asia makes infrastructure investments economically attractive. This is one of the main reasons why Turkey’s strategic location calls for developing a transport network from Europe to the Middle East and Central Asia. In the context of the connection between Pan-European transport corridors and Central Asia, the role of Turkey as one of the most important members of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and the Mediterranean basin gained more importance in the East-West and North-South connections.
1. The total of highway, state routes and province routes since 1996.
2. It includes the total of transportations in maritime. Please note that the calculations are approximate.
3. Only the transportations performed by the national carrier.
4. The amount of total natural gas transportation imported from the Russian Federation, Nigeria, Algeria and Iran. Sm3 is the value of volume adjusted calories according to 9,155 kcal/m3.
It should be noted here that rehabilitation and expansion of ports will be taken as priority in the forthcoming years.
Pipeline Transportation Projects 
Key Traits of Energy Transportation as outlined in the Eight Development Plan (2001-2005)
It is stressed that special attention will be paid to pipeline transportation that would in turn enhance Turkey’s important role as a “center of distribution of energy” in terms of both crude oil and natural gas.
It is planned that the pipeline project of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan that would enable the transportation of Caspian oil to Mediterranean region and from there to world markets will be completed during the Eigth Development Plan period.
New natural gas pipeline projects will be built upon distribution networks and connection line investments together with the principle of determining Turkey’s needs in the overall picture of long-term balances of natural gas demand and supply.
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