ORGI (Ordu-Giresun) Airport.. Turkey’s first airport built on sea

(UPDATE: 02 September 2017)  ORDU–GIRESUN (OR-GI) Airport is an airport on an artificial piece of land by the coast of GULYALI, a town in Ordu Province and PIRAZIZ, a town in Giresun Province, northern Turkey. It is located 19 km away from Ordu and 28 km from Giresun city centers.

Ordu-Giresun Airport built by filling the sea which was a first time in Europe, almost changed the fate of the Gülyalı district. Today, the number of daily flights from the airport has gone up to 44 and the annual passenger capacity has exceeded 1.5 million

The airport enjoys great attention from the people of the region and the number of flights and passengers carried have exceeded expectations. The airport is used for flights to/from Antalya, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Germany as well.

Public transportation to the city center is provided by Havaş (bus services) and commercial taxis

Other technical features of the airport are as follows:

Height (AMSL) 11 FT, Lighting Category CAT I, Parking, Fire Brigade CAT 7, VIP, Cafe Restaurant, Banking Services, Health Services, Rent A Car, CIP, Apron Aircraft Capacity 5

FIRST ENTRY (SOURCE: HURRIYET DAILY NEWS – JULY 22, 2011)

Officials laid the foundations for a much-awaited airport on the seaside between the Black Sea provinces of Ordu and Giresun in northern Turkey on Friday.

“Dreams are coming true,” Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin, said on Friday, during his visit to Ordu for the groundbreaking ceremony of the OR-Gİ Airport.

The airport has been in the planning stages for many years. Between 2008 and 2010, the government made the decision to construct the airport and conducted studies and feasibility works, the minister said. “The ministry and the contractor firm [that won the tender for the airport] reached an agreement on July 11 and now we are laying the foundations.”

The Transportation Minister Binali Yıldırım, who also participated in the ceremony, said Ordu and Giresun were two strategic provinces in the region.

Yıldırım said 56 kilometers of divided road had been constructed in Ordu in the years since the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, came to power in 2002, compared to only 50 kilometers built in the previous eight decades. “This year we will add 15 more kilometers [of road],” he said.

Şahin also said he hoped sea transportation would be developed in the Black Sea province.

July 22, 2011
SOURCE: HURRIYET DAILY NEWS