Rail Logistics Improvement Project

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The objective of the Rail Logistics Improvement Project for Turkey is to reduce transport costs in selected rail freight corridors and to strengthen institutional capacity at the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MoTI) to deliver rail freight connectivity and manage rail-enabled logistics centers. The Project has three components. 1. Construction of Railway Branch Lines and Multimodal Connections at Priority Network Nodes component will finance the provision of last-mile rail connectivity at well-prioritized portions of the Turkish railway network. 1.1. Last-mile Multimodal Connectivity at Filyos Port subcomponent will finance 100 percent of civil works and 100 percent of engineering design review and construction supervision consulting services for the provision of rail and road connectivity at the last mile directly to/from the greenfield, large-scale maritime port of Filyos, on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, and its adjacent industrial zone. 1.2. Last-mile Rail Connectivity for Çukurova Region Industrial Zones and Iskenderun Bay Maritime Ports subcomponent will finance 100 percent of civil works and 100 percent of engineering design review and construction supervision consulting services for the construction of branch line rail links to/from selected operational and prospective industrial zones and free zones in the Çukurova region of South-Central Turkey on the Mediterranean Coast. 1.3. Provision of Last-mile Rail Connectivity at Additional Priority Sites to be Selected During Implementation subcomponent will finance 100 percent of civil works to provide last-mile rail connectivity to an additional 2 to 3 cargo generation-attraction nodes of similar nature as those targeted under Sub-components 1.1 and 1.2 that remain disconnected from the national railway network. 2. Feasibility Studies, Detailed Engineering Designs, Environmental and Social Documentation, and Construction Supervision for Rail Last-mile Connectivity Infrastructure at Additional Freight Nodes component will finance 100 percent of consulting services to produce Feasibility Study (FS) for 12 potential last-mile rail connectivity infrastructure subprojects at pre-identified freight generation attraction nodes currently disconnected from the national railway network. 3. Phase 2 COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) Response Support, Institutional Strengthening, Capacity Building, and Project Implementation Support component will finance 100 percent of consulting services to provide technical assistance and capacity building in the following areas: (i) support to MoTI to diagnose the medium and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on multimodal logistics on the demand and supply sides, and design public, public-private, and/or purely private interventions, including interventions aimed to tackle behavioral and occupational aspects of risk prevention, to mitigate these impacts; (ii) support to Directorate-General of Infrastructure Investments (DGII) on the uniformization of rail technical standards across the national rail network; (iii) support to MoTI (DGII, Directorate-General of Transport Services Regulation-DGTSR, Directorate General of Turkish State Railways-TCDD) on the preparation of a strategy document for rail freight sector performance improvement; and (iv) support to TCDD through the development of an operational and management model for rail-enabled logistics centers specified within the framework of Turkey’s Logistics Masterplan and in line with Turkey’s 11th Development Plan, based on international best practice contextualized to the Turkish environment.