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Turkey's new highway

Work on Turkey's Istanbul-Izmir highway is now in planning. The US$1 billion project will include a radical suspended bridge, said to be one of the longest of its type.
February 7, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Work on Turkey's Istanbul-Izmir highway is now in planning. The US$1 billion project will include a radical suspended bridge, said to be one of the longest of its type. A group of banks, 1469 Banca Infrastrutture Innovazione e Sviluppo (BIIS), the infrastructure investment unit of the 1473 Intesa Sanpaolo group, 1474 Citibank and Turkish bank 1476 Akbank are supporting the project. In Turkey BIIS has already funded the Gumusova-Gerede highway, which is worth $239.5 million.

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