Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Items transported to the UAE included various export products such as Turkish coffee, masks, lemon cologne, herbal tea, halva, walnut sausage, t-shirts, hardcover notebooks.

The transportation process, which takes a total of 7 days, stands out for its time and cost advantage compared to the Istanbul-Sharjah route with Suez Canal crossing, which takes an average of 26 days on the sea route.

Thanks to this alternative, the business world will be able to avoid the additional costs caused by the recent global container shortage and the delay in the delivery of goods.

Bilateral trade between Turkey and the UAE has averaged $9.5 billion in the last 5 years. Therefore, this development will have a serious potential in bilateral trade with the UAE and will advance this flow faster and more economically.

In addition, if the bilateral road transport agreement between the two countries is signed, reducing existing bureaucratic hurdles is expected to make road transports along this route even more fluid.