At the Overseas Contracting and Technical Consulting Sector's Assessment Meeting and Award Ceremony held with the participation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Çalık Holding subsidiaries Çalık Enerji and Gap İnşaat were awarded.
At the ceremony hosted by Zafer Çağlayan, Turkish Minister of Economy in Ankara, Çalık Holding Chairman Ahmet Çalık took the awards given to Çalık Enerji and Gap İnşaat from Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan. Çalık Enerji had taken its place in the 2012 ENR (Engineering News Record) list based on 2011 figures as the 129th largest contracting company of the world. The company rose up to the 111th place in 2013. And Gap İnşaat received the "Overseas Contracting Services" award.
"I am happy with the overseas works of our contractors"
Erdoğan expressed his appreciation regarding the works of Turkish contractors that he witnessed at countries he visited. "Most recently, we saw the works of some of our companies in Turkmenistan." said Erdoğan. "We attended the groundbreaking ceremony of 1.5 billion dollar worth Turkmenbashi Port project with Mr. Gurbanguli Berdimmuhamedov. The already completed and recently started works in Turkmenistan made us all proud."
Prime Minister Erdoğan handed the awards of 38 contracting and 4 technical consulting companies that are named among the best 250 contracting companies of the world in the assessment made by ENR magazine for the year 2013.
