Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Hisarcıklıoğlu, Minister Pekcan, Governor Canalp, Edirne Mayor Recep Gürkan, TESK President Bendevi Palandöken, AK Party Edirne Province President İlyas Akmeşe, the ministry's general managers and customs officials were briefed on the works underway.

In her press statement, Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said, “We are going to modernize all customs gates; we are going digital. We are going for a one stop system.”

Reporting that they are working to eliminate queues of trucks which begin to build up on Fridays and last well over into the next week at Kapıkule, Pekcan stated that these are caused by export transactions from Istanbul being processed on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Pekcan said, “We talked about increasing the capacity of the truck park. We talked about increasing the number of the fuel pump station which we can also do. Tomorrow will be our visit to Bulgaria. Turkey has Europe's most modern customs gate. We are going to modernize customs gates, we're going digital, we're going for a one-stop system.”

TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and Minister Ruhsar Pekcan visited the truck park, duty-free shops and x-ray unit and then received information from Yaşar Yaman Ocak, Thrace Customs and Trade Regional Manager.