With Saudi support, the Iraq ports are discussing with the Turkish delegation raising transit to a million trucks a year

the Border Ports Authority Iraq, today, with a high-level official Turkish delegation, investigated the possibility of increasing the transit rate for goods passing between the two countries and with the support of Saudi Arabia.

This came during a meeting with the Border Ports Authority Chairman, Team Omar Adnan Waveli, the delegation headed by Barak Akan, Director General for EU Affairs and External Relations at the Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, to discuss implementing measures for activating the development road project and promoting transit and trade between the two countries.

According to a statement issued by the Authority, the meeting was in execution of the outputs of the agreement recently signed during the visit of Council of Ministers President Ali Falah al-Zaidi to the Turkish Republic, which aims to strengthen regional connectivity and develop transport and trade movement between Iraq and Turkey and the countries of the region.

The statement clarified that the two sides sought mechanisms to facilitate the movement of goods and transit trucks through the Iraq border ports, and the possibility of adopting the spring, birth and standing ports as key corridors within the transport network connecting Turkey, Europe, the Middle East and the Gulf countries through the Iraq territories.

During the meeting, Waile reaffirmed the readiness of the Border Ports Authority to provide the necessary facilities for the orderly movement of goods and goods, noting the work on allocating transit corridors within the border ports according to international standards, contributing to the strengthening of Iraq's position as a regional logistics center and axis connecting Turkey with Iraq, including to the United Arab Emirates and Gulf countries via land transport.

For its part, the Turkish delegation expressed the readiness of its country to increase the number of transit trucks passing through the Iraq territories to one million a year, providing the necessary facilities to achieve this, pointing to the existence of Turkish Saudi-supported understandings to strengthen transit traffic through the Iraq territories, contributing to the activation of commercial traffic and supporting the national economy.