Middle East

Editor’s Overview Türkiye March – April 2021

Dear Readers of Elevator World Turkey, COVID-19, which showed up last year and has been prevalent now for more than one year, seems likely to affect our lives for a...

Elevators in İstanbul Through the Eyes of an Architect

With its population of 16 million, Istanbul is a Turkish city that intensely uses its vertical and horizontal transportation systems. According to the demographic data, the active population of the...

66.7 Billion Dollars of Export from Istanbul Based Companies to 238 Destinations

Istanbul based companies took the lion’s share from Turkey’s 169.5 billion dollars of export of last year, which totaled 39.3%. Based on the data obtained from Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM),...

Turkey’s First Elevator Comes To Life Again

In the late 19th century, long-distance rail travel could be a difficult and uncomfortable undertaking, with unpleasant seating in dirty passenger cars. It was against this backdrop that Belgian businessman...

Our Elevator Industry is Ready for the Global Market

The novel coronavirus, which spread to the whole world after a soup drunk in China, again proved that the world is a global village. Population movements between the countries and...

Turkey’s Fastest Elevators will be in IFC

The Istanbul Finance Center (IFC) Project, which is aimed to be a regional and global finance center planned to be constructed on an area of 300,000 m2, will accommodate the...

Being Native Where You Inhabit!

I have been asked to write an article about İstanbul. It may seem to be an easy job at first sight, but writing about Istanbul is a hard task. It...

Süleyman Yalçın City Hospital Equipped by thyssenkrupp Elevator

Thyssenkrupp Elevator completed the installation of 22 elevators and six escalators at Prof. Dr. Süleyman Yalçın City Hospital, which has been rebuilt within the scope of İstanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation...

Sum of Demurrage, Storage and Freight Fees Paid to Ship Owners Exceeds the Value of the Goods

The worldwide shrinkage in product sales due to the pandemic also had an impact on maritime trade. The ships and containers anchored in China and the USA caused an increase...

Mitsubishi Electric Celebrates 100th Anniversary

Mitsubishi Electric, which develops technologies covering many fields from factory automation systems to industrial and collaborative advanced robotics, from CNC mechatronic systems to elevators and escalators, from air conditioners to...

NEW JERSEY TRANSIT BOD PLAN TO REPLACE ESCALATORS

New Jersey Transit BoD Plan to Replace Escalators

WEEF HOLDS SECOND IN-PERSON MEETING IN FRANKFURT

WEEF Holds Second In-Person Meeting in Frankfurt

The Torch at 640 Eighth Avenue takes its place on the Midtown Manhattan skyline; rendering courtesy of ODA and SLCE Architects

TEI Group Awarded Major 30-Unit Contract at The Torch

TKE CONSIDERING US$22.7-BILLION IPO IN U.S. IN 2026

TKE Considering US$22.7-Billion IPO in U.S. in 2026

Hiyaa Towers; image courtesy of Architecture Association Maldives

Progress Made on Elevator Installation in Maldive Towers