Altinkum Marina
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The marina will have a yacht club, heliport for the rich and famous to land helicopters direct on the site, a capacity for 623 berthed yachts and 600 yachts in dry dock, a yacht lift for 300 and 100 tonnes, and a swimming pool. The marina will serve mainly yachts of 75-150 metres long, such as mega-yachts which are increasingly in popularity on the Aegean and east Mediterannean seaboard.
There will also be a shopping centre, supermarkets, yacht equipment shops, a fitness centre and sports facilities, banks, a petrol station, restaurants and a cultural centre.
The marina will also crucially have ferryboat management for cruises to the Greek islands of Kalimnos, Kos and Leros, as well as a customs post, port authority facilities, a passport control unit.
Didim D-Marina is being built on a build-operate-transfer model for 25 years by Dogus Group, one of Turkey’s leading construction companies.
Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim said: “After the marina is built, I believe it will bring tourism to Didim all year round. It will be seen as the shining star of the Aegean and the Mediterannean".
Dogus’ Chief Executive Ferit Sahenk added that with his company’s overall investment in marinas in Turkey reaching $200 million, he believed that Didim marina would bring extra new business to the area.
He added that yachtsmen would be keen to use the marina as it was on the Cesme, Kusadasi, Bodrum, Datca and Marmaris routes, while ferry boats from the Greek islands of Kos, samos, Kalimnos, Leros and Patmos would be an added draw.
Mayor of Didim Mümin Kamaci said "the marina will be an important investment for the country in general and will revive the regional economy". Development began four months and is widely seen to be on schedule.
These prove to be exciting times for the town of Didim, Altinkum and Akbuk, more reasons to invest now and build a new life in Turkey.
