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Defiant Qatar does end run around Arab blockade via Turkey and Iran
THE newly-announced trade route through Turkey, Iran to Qatar is the latest cost-saving scheme keep cargo flowing to beleaguered Qatar, blockaded by its neighbours in the complex diplomatic dispute.
Said Wikipedia: "In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen broke diplomatic ties with Qatar, it of supporting terrorism. Qatari troops were also removed from the military coalition in Yemen. Egypt closed its airspace and seaports to all Qatari transportation."
The new supply route, says Qatar's daily, The Peninsula, is expected to reduce transport costs of goods, up to 80 per cent, particularly for food items when compared to air freight charges.
"Given the nature of some food items, such as vegetables, fruits, poultry and dairy products, land transport is the best way to import them," said Ahmed Al Khalaf, chairman of International Projects Development Co, the parent company of Qatar Meat.
"The new route will not only bring the cost of transportation down, but the items that reach will be fresher and of better quality," he said.
He said the new trade line will be more sustainable and reliable, and boost the Turkey-Qatar bilateral trade volume manifold, given the fact businessmen from both countries have signed scores of trade agreements, especially during their recent visit to Turkey from August 3-6.
Turkey's Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci last week announced plans to use a land route through Iran to export goods to Qatar.
The sea route between Turkey and Qatar initially took 11 days, while the land route took 14 days. And recent experiments have reduced this duration to nine days. And Turkey aims at reducing the travel time to five or six days.
But the newly propounded commercial land transport line, from Turkey's Mardin city to Iran's Bushehr port, will further shorten the duration to two or three days at the most, said the report.
The distance between Mardin, Turkey, and Iran's Port of Bushehr is 1,700 kilometres, which can be travelled by trucks in 22 hours, while the distance between the Iranian port of Bushehr and Qatar's Hamad Port is not much and the Turkish trucks do the voyage on ro-ro ships eight hours thus goods can reach to Doha in two days.
Turkish foodstuffs have already started coming through the new land route after Turkey and Iran verbally agreed on it. But the official announcement is expected to be made this week.
Said Wikipedia: "In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen broke diplomatic ties with Qatar, it of supporting terrorism. Qatari troops were also removed from the military coalition in Yemen. Egypt closed its airspace and seaports to all Qatari transportation."
The new supply route, says Qatar's daily, The Peninsula, is expected to reduce transport costs of goods, up to 80 per cent, particularly for food items when compared to air freight charges.
"Given the nature of some food items, such as vegetables, fruits, poultry and dairy products, land transport is the best way to import them," said Ahmed Al Khalaf, chairman of International Projects Development Co, the parent company of Qatar Meat.
"The new route will not only bring the cost of transportation down, but the items that reach will be fresher and of better quality," he said.
He said the new trade line will be more sustainable and reliable, and boost the Turkey-Qatar bilateral trade volume manifold, given the fact businessmen from both countries have signed scores of trade agreements, especially during their recent visit to Turkey from August 3-6.
Turkey's Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci last week announced plans to use a land route through Iran to export goods to Qatar.
The sea route between Turkey and Qatar initially took 11 days, while the land route took 14 days. And recent experiments have reduced this duration to nine days. And Turkey aims at reducing the travel time to five or six days.
But the newly propounded commercial land transport line, from Turkey's Mardin city to Iran's Bushehr port, will further shorten the duration to two or three days at the most, said the report.
The distance between Mardin, Turkey, and Iran's Port of Bushehr is 1,700 kilometres, which can be travelled by trucks in 22 hours, while the distance between the Iranian port of Bushehr and Qatar's Hamad Port is not much and the Turkish trucks do the voyage on ro-ro ships eight hours thus goods can reach to Doha in two days.
Turkish foodstuffs have already started coming through the new land route after Turkey and Iran verbally agreed on it. But the official announcement is expected to be made this week.
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