EURASIA SECTIONS
The most important things about Turkey are it's size, it's wealth and the potential for growth. Very few countries in the world are poised for take-off in the same way.
Turkey's leading sectors for exports and investments.
Electrical Power Systems: demand for additional electricity continues to grow at a rate of over 10% per year.
Telecommunications Equipment: target for year 2005 is 40% density, current destiny is 25%.
Building Products: population is estimated to reach 87 million by 2010. Estimates call for an increase of 7.3 million housing units during this period, this represents a requirement for more than 600,00 new housing units each year.
Automotive Parts & Services Equipment: Turkey currently has the capacity to manufacture over 730,00 automobiles per year.
Textile Machinery & Equipment: Nearly all the domestic textile machinery needs are met by imports. Import levels anticipated to be approximately $1 Billion.
Medical Equipment: Total market size is $500 million.
Pollution Control Equipment: Due to the growing threat of pollution, then central government and municipalities have launched projects to reverse environmental degradation.
Architectural / Construction/ Engineering Services: in order to meet its needs and complete its infrastructure development, Turkey has been investing billions of US dollars in construction of Highways, ports, airports, motorway bridges, dams, hydraulic and thermal power plants, water and waste water projects.
Agricultural Machinery & Equipment: Turkey is self sufficient in most agricultural commodities, and will gain further importance as food-exporting country as it adopts European Union (EU) food processing and packaging standards.
Food Processing & Packaging Equipment: the Turkish government's goals are to improve the quality of processed food and increase production. To meet demand, Turkey will rely on increasingly on food processing and packaging machinery.
Metal Working Machinery: Import and export volume is approximately $US 2 billion.
EURASIA SECTIONS