It is part of the Filyos Valley Project, which was launched on June 1, 2015 and is budgeted to US$1.5 billion.

[1] The project goes back to the time of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II (reigned 1876–1909).

The groundbreaking took place in presence of Prime minister Binali Yıldırım on December 9, 2016.

[1] The port's annual cargo loading-unloading capacity is projected to be 25 million tons.

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