500 km-long Kara Deniz highway under construction from Hopa to Samsun. First 18 km-long section from Georgia border at Hopa to Sarp includes 3 km-long twin tunnel in basalt excavated with handheld Atlas Copco BBR 16 pneumatic machines. Second 1.36 km twin tunnel underway by contractor Cengiz near Cayeli on six faces using two Atlas Copco L2D Rocket Boomers in basaltic tuff and agglomerate, and third site will require 500 m-long twin tunnels. Visit www.cengizgroup.com.tr and www.atlascopco.com December 2000.Siemens is supplying an operations management and traffic control system to the value of around EUR57 million for 29 tunnels on a 4-lane road from Espiye to the Sarp/Batumi border checkpoint along the coast of the Black Sea in the direction of Georgia's border. Siemens will be installing a central control station with seven control substations as well as the entire technical infrastructure with traffic control, fire protection, fire fighting, power supply, lighting, and ventilation systems as well as communication and camera monitoring equipment with automatic event detection. Click here for more. Visit www.siemens.com/traffic 08/08.