ONE of the biggest marinas in Turkey – and less than two kilometres from Aegean Resorts’ newest projects – is taking shaping at a rapid rate as it seeks to be operational by next summer.
The marina, in Altinkum, as these pictures show, is being developed close to the Aegean Resorts’ Aegean Villas complex, and the exciting Legends Cove project which will be unveiled in due course.
The £30 million marina is seen as the key to providing a 12-month tourism economy for Altınkum and the rest of the resort.
Located between Third Beach and the Parlementerler Sitesi, the 287,000 m² marina is being built by Doğuş Group and scheduled to be open by summer 2009.
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 Mediterranean seaboard.
It will be the biggest operational marina in the Aegean and provide a useful stopping off point for mariners.
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 Doğuş.
Doğuş’ Chief Executive Ferit Şahenk 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. |
