Istanbul tube tunnel project has started its countdown, Zaman reported Monday, quoting officials as saying that the negotiations to choose engineering and Consultancy Company of the project shortly known as Marmaray, started. The negotiations between the Transportation Ministry and the Turkish-Japanese group which ranked the first in the engineering and consultancy tender that will be implemented in cooperation with the Japanese International Credit Agency (JICA), are expected to be concluded in the first months of 2001, the paper said.
The project, according to the daily, is foreseen to be started in May 2001. The project foresees the construction of 70.5 kilometers suburban train, including 1.8 kilometers tube tunnel -- Albawaba.com
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