The bidding for the Rize-Artvin Airport, Turkey's second airport to be constructed on reclaimed land, has been canceled due to possible revisions in the project.

Added to the 2016 investment program by the Transportation, Maritime and Communications Ministry and signed by the High Planning Council in June, Rize-Artvin Airport's infrastructure bid, which was supposed to be held on Sept. 8 has been canceled. The airport project will be revised, and a new bid for the infrastructure will be announced shortly after the revision.

Rize-Artvin Airport was to be modeled after the Ordu-Giresun Airport, which was built on an artificial island, and two-and-a-half times more stones will be used for its reclaimed land. Even though it is constructed at sea, the airport will share the same size and characteristics as mainland airports. The width and length of the runway, which was modeled using Boeing 737-800 type aircraft as references, spans 45 meters and three kilometers, respectively.

Rize-Artvin Airport is expected to serve 2 million passengers annually along with its terminal building and superstructure facilities. While the airport will be built on the Yeşilköy and Pazar coast line - 34 kilometers from Rize's city center, 105 kilometers from Trabzon and about 75 kilometers from Artvin, its planned region is nearly 30 meters deep in the sea. Including a 3-kilometer-long runway, a 250-meter-long vehicle track, an apron and a terminal building, the project's harbor will be built 120 kilometers from Artvin.

For the airport, for which the YPK decision was issued and the public information meeting regarding the Environmental Impact and Assessment Report was held, the ground drilling study and bathymetric mapping work were also completed.

A protection breakwater-type section, infrastructure final project preparation and construction plan works were initiated as well.