title: Gerze Tunnel
text: # Gerze Tunnel
  
  Gerze Tunnel (Turkish: Gerze Tüneli), is a highway tunnel constructed in Sinop Province, northern Turkey.
  
  Gerze Tunnel is part of the Sinop-Samsun Highway D.010 within the Black Sea Coastal Highway, of which construction was carried out by the Turkish Cengiz Construction Company. The 348 and 348 m (1,142 and 1,142 ft)-long twin-tube tunnel carrying two lanes of traffic in each direction is flanked by 1,680–1,680 m (5,510–5,510 ft)-long Demirciköy Tunnel in the northwest and 1,598–1,530 m (5,243–5,020 ft)-long Yenikent Tunnel in the southeast on the same highway.
  
  The tunnel was opened to traffic on 26 March 2014.
  
  