Our General Manager and UTIKAD Board Member & Head of Customs and Warehouse Working Group Arkın Obdan answered Aysel Yücel's questions on the YouTube channel of Dünya Newspaper. He made evaluations on "New Opportunities and Barriers in Transit Trade".
In the interview, Turkey's prominence in international trade and the new opportunities and obstacles that came with it due to first the pandemic, then the Russia-Ukraine war were discussed. Obdan mentioned that the opportunities were always there and that UTIKAD has been in contact with the Ministry of Trade and Commerce for the past four years and they have produced solutions and projects together in partnership.
He continued his speech by mentioning that they made field visits to observe how fast transit trade is progressing in countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium, and that they started to implement these practices in Turkey. In the interview, he also mentioned that with the breaking of the supply chains of large companies due to the pandemic, industrial companies decided to keep their inventories in important places and that Turkey became a logistics hub because it is at the most convenient point of east-west traffic.
You can reach our Youtube channel via the link below to watch the whole interview, which discusses the existence of obstacles as well as opportunities in logistics in Turkey.