New Turkish marina at Didim
by IBI magazine on 5 May 2007
Didim Marina, superyacht haven Didim Marina
Construction of a US$52 million marina complex in Turkey - the D-Marin Didim Marina - has been started with completion scheduled for summer 2009.
The 287,000 sq m marina will have a yacht club, a heliport for direct on-site access, a capacity for 623 berthed yachts and 600 yachts in dry dock, a yacht lift for 300 and 100 tonnes, and a swimming pool. It will serve mainly yachts of 75m-100m long.
The marina will also include a shopping centre, supermarkets, yacht equipment shops, a fitness centre and sports facilities, banks, a petrol station, restaurants and a cultural centre.
As part of the development a ferryboat management facility will be established to provide for cruises to the Greek Islands of Kalimnos, Kos and Leros, as well as a customs post, port authority facilities and a passport control unit.
Didim D-Marina is being built on a build-operate-transfer model for 25 years by the Dosus Group, one of Turkey's leading construction companies.
Dosus chief executive Ferit Sahenk added that with his company's overall investment in marinas in Turkey reaching US$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, Datça and Marmaris routes, while ferry boats from the Greek Islands of Kos, Samos, Kalimnos, Leros and Patmos would be an added draw.
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