GAMA Legal Consultant Bora Kaya attended the “Commercial Transaction of the Year in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)” award ceremony in Budapest on March 28, 2019 as a member of the Final Election Committee consisting of 13 people, and has presented the award to the winning law firm with our lawyer Esra Berktas. Bora Kaya is the only internal legal counsel and sole Turkish lawyer in this organization who has served on the Final Selection Committee.
Tamer Çalışır, General Manager of GAMA Energy, shared information and HİS opinions on the financial situation in the energy sector in the ”Funding in Energy Markets” panel held within the scope of “ISTRADE 2019” Energy Trade and Supply Summit held on 29-30 April.
GAMA Holding Social Responsibility Committee Chairman S. Yücel Özden participated in the 7th International İstanbul Smart Grid and Cities Congress and Fair (ICSG), held at Haliç Congress Centre on 25-26 April 2019 as a member of the Executive Committee, representing GAMA. A plaque of appreciation was presented to Özden for his contributions.
GAMA Holding Business Development Director and Izmir and Kocaeli City Hospitals Projects Investment and Management Companies Board Member Yalçın Eligüzeloğlu’s April 2019 ‘Hospital Manager’ interview can be read from the link. “GAMA Holding, which has been building approximately 400 industrial plants, power plants, pipelines, tunnels and other infrastructure projects in more than 30 countries, is the main investor and contractor of PPP projects of GAMA Holding Izmir and Kocaeli City Hospitals.”
“GAMA Seminars”, which were organized during the month of May in order to support the work life of the students of Ankara University GAMA Vocational School and provide information about the market, were successfully completed. The content of the seminars, which took place every Tuesday in May at GAMA Vocational School, consisted of four different topics that could attract the attention of the students.
Ankara University GAMA Vocational School, Alternative Energy Resources Technology Program students, with the contribution of the advisors Kenan Özel, using the professional internship experience they gained at GAMA Enerji Inc.’s power plants, they realized the 1 kW Horizontal Wind Turbine Project.
Rades-C 450 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant has been fired successfully on June 14, 2019 synchronized with the Tunisian National Grid on June 16, 2019 and started to produce electricity for Tunisia. Moreover, the Power Plant reached baseload on simple cycle on June 20, 2019.
İzmir Provincial Health Director Op. Dr. M. Burak Öztop within the scope of his review tour has visited the Izmir Bayraklı City Hospital on June 12, 2019, which is a Türkerler – GAMA Joint Venture that will be operational with a build-operate-transfer model and has examined the ongoing work. After the tour by the Turkerler-GAMA officials to Öztop, a presentation was made about the latest situation and details of the project.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on July 11, 2019 between FinEst Bay Area Development, TouchStone Capital Partners, China Railway International Group and GAMA for the construction of a 100 km submarine tunnel with an investment cost of 15 billion Euros to be built in the Baltic Sea.
GAMA, which brought the Marmaray Project connecting Asia and Europe to Istanbul, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build the Tallinn-Helsinki Tunnel with the Chinese firm, which is intended to be the longest submarine tunnel in the world, within the scope of the “FinEst Bay Area Development ” project.
The 100 km Tallinn-Helinski submarine tunnel project, supported by the Finnish and Estonian Governments to ease heavy gulf ferry traffic, has a total investment of 15 billion Euros (US $ 16.5 billion) and is planned to be funded by Chinese financial company TouchStone Capital Partners and other international investors.
The tunnel project will be constructed by Gama together with China Railway International Group, which is in second place on the ENR listing, and TouchStone Capital. The project will bring together the cities of Tallinn and Helsinki underwater, which can be reached in 3 and a half hours by road and in 2 hours by ferry, under 20 minutes.
