Rail Turkey 2009

Rail Turkey 2009

Ceylan Intercontinental, Istanbul

10 - 12 February 2009

Investment and development opportunities for operators, developers government and investors

Access one of the fastest growing rail sectors in the world

Gain an unparalleled analysis of new trends in Turkish rail and future projects open to private investors Learn about the commercial opportunities and challenges resulting from Turkey’s evolution into a global transport hub Network with the leaders implementing Turkey’s biggest rail projectsple are expected to be in attendance at the biggest rail event to hit the Turkish market.

Experience the Terrapinn difference

Real case studies presented by CEOs

PowerPoint discouraged

Interaction and humour encouraged

Panel sessions creating a talk show rather than a lecture

Round tables that facilitate brainstorming

Cocktails to network and relax

Contact: facilitating before, during and after event networkingical strategies.  

DAY ONE Wednesday 11 February 2009

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8.30am Registration and welcome coffee

9am Welcome from the Chair

TALKING TURKEY – THE IMPORTANCE OF RAIL IN TURKEY

 

9.10am Forecasting rail’s key geo-political and economic role in the booming Turkish

economy

• Analysing the long-term geo-political and economic importance of the BTK and Marmaray projects

• Why Turkey, why now?

• A window to Europe and Asia: The strategic importance of Turkey as a corridor to land-

locked states

• Will new regional rail projects spark new regional alliances?

• Rail in the EU context: balancing national, political and economic aspirations

  Mr Binali Yildrim, Minister of Transport and Communication, The Republic of Turkey

 

9.40am Special Keynote Presentation

Mr Suleyman Karaman, Director General, TCDD

 

10.10am New Anatolia: building Turkey into a new mega transit hub

• Competitiveness: The importance of taking a commercial approach to railway freight service delivery

• Rail Partnerships: The need to integrate Turkish railway services with other rail carriers

• Intermodal Partnerships: Integrating Turkish railway services with ports and shipping to create a competitive service

• What Turkey is doing to make its rail sector more competitive? What are the next steps?

• Role of World Bank in supporting restructuring and lending for strategic infrastructure investments

 Ms. Martha Lawrence, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank

 

10.40am Morning Tea

11.10am Bringing Turkish rail into the 21st Century: key challenges and opportunities

• Innovative funding and development strategies

• Policy requirements, design and implementation challenges

• Urban planning challenges: merging Turkey’s local and international needs

• Bringing Turkey’s light rail projects up to global best-practice

• Investing in increased high-speed and freight transport capacity

  Ms. Martha Lawrence, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank

Dr. Ela Bablik-Sutcliffe, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University

Mr. Serdinc Yilmaz, Rail Expert, DPT (State Planning Organisation)

Dr. Gulden Erkut, Head of Regional Planning Section, Istanbul Technical University

 

RAIL & MONEY – INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT MODELS

 

11.50am 2009-2013: An update on Turkey’s current rail investment program

• Examining new investment opportunities, emerging projects and which projects will receive priority funding

• Assessing new financing models to boost private-sector involvement in Turkish rail infrastructure investment

• Increasing rail’s allocation of public investment funding

• Restructuring the TCDD to be boost industry competitiveness 

  Mr. Serdinc Yilmaz, Rail Expert, DPT (State Planning Organisation)

 

12.10pm PPPs for rail and new legislation

Overview of PPP relating legislation of Turkey

• Assessing new PPP models and draft legislation

• Risk management in PPP projects

• Draft PPP Code by International PPP Platform

• Potential for faster implementation of rail projects with PPPs

• Dispute resolution under Draft PPP Code

  Mr. Ahmet Kesli, President, International PPP Platform Turkey

 

12.30pm Networking lunch

 

1.30pm To BOT or not to BOT? Examining the best funding options for rail projects

• Examining the best funding and ownership models

• PPPs vs. debt financing, bonds and loans

• What impact will changing BOT laws have?

• Improving the tendering process

• Which parties bear what risk?

  Mr. Tahir Celik, Board Member, Celikler

Mr. Ahmet Kesli, President, International PPP Platform Turkey

Mr. Marc Smeets, CFO, Infrabel

 

2.10pm Funding the rail boom through strategic port privatisation

• The crucial role of port privatisation in funding Turkey’s new rail projects and modernisation

• Which rail projects are set to receive revenue from new port sales?

• Lessons from Turkey’s port privatisation for future rail privatisation

  Mr. Ali Guner Tekin, Department Head-Advisory Services, Privatisation Administration

 

2.30pm Benchmark international case study: Financing the award winning Diabolo Rail Project

• Finalizing the PPP for the Diabolo Rail Project

• Selecting the suitable partners to finance and develop the projects

• Creating significant cost savings through Diabolo’s unique twin PPP template

• Improving greater airport accessibility by developing a new rail/road link

  Mr. Marc Smeets, CFO, Infrabel

 

3pm Bring 100+ business cards

 

3.40pm Afternoon Tea

4.10pm Financing and implementing Tehran Metro’s $18.5 billion upgrade and expansion

• An overview of TUSRC’s present and planned projects

• Securing the finance required for TUSRC’s massive expansion and upgrades

• Implementing Tehran Metro’s complex civil works with innovative equipment

• Working in partnership with international investors

  Dr. Mohammad Montazeri, Deputy Managing Director, Tehran Metro

 

4.40pm Crossing borders: An update on the Iconic ‘Iron Silk Road’ Project

• An update on the BTK rail project

• Celikler’s strategic project partner selection for the BTK project

• Developing innovative contract design and costing mechanisms

• Raising the funds required for the BTK bid

• Celikler’s bid and tender methodology

• Governance and effective consortium management

  Mr. Tahir Celik, Board Member, Celikler

 

5.10pm From bid to construction: How Saudi Binladin Group and Deutsche Bahn successfully partnered for success on the first phase of the North/South Railway

• Where Saudi Binladin and Deutsche Bahn currently stand on the world’s largest rail project

• The project’s importance to the mining and petrochemical industries

• Cost and time reduction strategies

• How Saudi Binladin Group competed to win the project contract

• Synergies between projects in Saudi Arabia & Turkey

  Dr. Shahid Khan, Project Director, North/South Railway Project, CTW 100, Saudi Binladin Group

 

5.40pm Close of day/Cocktail reception

 

DAY TWO Thursday 12 February 2009

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8.30am Arrival and welcome coffee

9am Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair Lord Tony Berkley, Chairman, Rail Freight Group BEST PRACTICE OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE, SAFETY & SECURITY

 

9.10am Investing in safety and security: Improving operational efficiency with innovative signalling and communication technology

• Making Turkish metros more intelligent

• The benefit of investment in safety and security solutions

• Reducing operational costs and improving safety

• Making Turkish metros more competitive and in line with world-best standards

  Mr. Feyzullah Gundogdu, Chief, Kayseri Municipality

 

9.40am Operation 101: How to manage and operate a rail project effectively with a Turkish municipality

• Governance: now the system is built-how should it be organised

• Meeting operational and maintenance costs: preparing for upgrade and expansion

• Creating transparent communication channels between municpality and the operating company

  Mr. Sonmez Alev, CEO, Izmir Metro

 

10.10am Rail operations, maintenance and security think-tank: a framework to cover all scenarios

• Handling a surge in rail passenger numbers: upping service capability to manage Turkey’s inevitable migration from road to rail

• Using new rail technology to create efficiency-automation,ticketing solutions and more

• Maintenance and security-infrastructure, signalling and rollingstock

  Mr. Luis Gonzalez Cepeda, International Marketing Manager, Dimetronic

Mr. Sonmez Alev, CEO, Izmir Metro

Mr. Luis Fernandez, Director International Business, Thales

Mr. Feyzullah Gundogdu, Chief, Kayseri Municipality

 

11am Morning Tea

FREIGHT EXPECTATIONS-THE BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR TURKEY

 

11.30am The relevance and future of Turkish freight rail

• Demand for freight rail in Turkey in 10 years

• Competition in the Turkish freight rail market

• Strategies to capture a larger share of the Turkish freight market

• Updates on current freight capacity in Turkey

• Role of private sector in financing and investing in Turkey’s freight rail infrastructure: who pays?

Ms Hulya Cilgi, International Marketing Manager, TCDD

Mr. Mehmet Tekin, Advisor to the Director General, TCDD

 

12pm Panel Discussion: The key role of Turkish freight rail in international and domestic trade

• Facilitating imports and exports to Europe, Asia and beyond

• Analysing the impact of new rail corridor development onexisting trade routes: comparing time, cost and ease of delivery

• Routes and logistics: Likely future trade routes, alliances, strategies and preferred freight options in Turkey

• Migrating from road to rail: impact on freight forwarders and logistics companies

  Ms Hulya Cilgi, International Marketing Manager, TCDD

Mr Jawad Kamel, President & CEO, Advance International Transport & Trading

Mr. Ali Avci, CEO, Ceynak Lojistik

Mr Kosta Sandalci, President, UTIKAD

 

12.50pm Networking lunch

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: BEST-PRACTICE INTERMODAL INTEGRATION

 

1.50pm Examining the strategic relationship between Turkey’s rail,ports and roads

• The important relationship between ports, railways and roads:

• Unique intermodal project financing options

• Discussing the emergence of logistics villages in Turkey

  Mr. Ali Avci, CEO, Ceynak Lojistik

 

2.20pm Benchmarking international best-practice: EC policies for intermodal transport: passenger and freight

• Basic needs and the policy umbrella

• Policies for intermodal freight transport

• Policies for intermodal passenger travel

• Barriers and solutions

  Mr. Guido Muller, Policy Officer, European Commission

 

2.50pm Networking break

3.20pm Round Table

Roundtable 1: Improving passenger rail services in Turkey

Roundtable 2: Do PPPs provide the best value-for-money in infrastructure development?

Roundtable 3: Delivering rail projects-on time and within budget

Roundtable 4: Rail as a link in the integrated Euro-Asian freight logistics chain

 

PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING SUCCESSFUL MEGA RAIL PROJECTS

 

4pm Planning, designing and delivering world class rail projects: lessons learnt from international projects

• Protecting your client’s interests-specifying what you want and making sure you get it

• Looking at key drivers, supporting policy context and governance issues

• Outcomes not outputs-human/political outcomes, business outcomes and transport outcomes

  Dr. Nick Higton, Director, Arup Rail

Mr. Koray Etoz, Associate Director, Arup Turkey

 

4.20pm Implementing complex rail projects in difficult environments with advanced tunnelling technology

• Exploring the innovative engineering techniques used in the Adana Metro

• Solving alignment challenges and complex ground conditions

• Successfully applying the cut-and-cover tunnelling method

  Mr. Metin Karakus, Project Manager, Adana Metro

 

4.40pm Best-practice tunnel excavation techniques with drill and blast for mega projects

• Cost reduction with less overbreak

• Probing for better geological investigation

• Rapid railway development in Scandanavia-lessons for Turkey

• Istanbul-Ankara high speed line

  Mr. Gunnar Nord, Senior Advisor-Construction, Atlas Copco

Mr. Karl-Heinz Wennmohs, Senior Project Director, Atlas Copco

 

5pm Delivering rail projects on spec, on budget and on time

• Developing a watertight plan and design prior to construction

• Best-of-breed project planning and execution

• Innovative cost-cutting strategies to minimise project spend

  Dr. Shahid Khan, Project Director, North/South Railway Project, CTW 100,

Saudi Binladin Group

Mr. Tahir Celik, Board Member, Celikler

Mr. Metin Karakus, Project Manager, Adana Metro

 

5.40pm Closing remarks and close of conference

 

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