Türkiye’s exports to Russia and Ukraine increased by 3 percent despite the pandemic. It has reached $5.9 billion in the January-November period of 2020. Onur Güvenler, General Manager of Almark Logistics, which carries out international transportation between Türkiye and Russia and Ukraine, stated that 4 billion 28 million dollars of exports were made to Russia and 1 billion 870 million dollars of exports were made to Ukraine in the first 11 months of 2020, when total exports decreased by 8 percent according to TURKSTAT data, “”Türkiye can easily triple its annual exports to such two countries to 15 billion dollars. We are trying to contribute to the increase in exports by conducting the transportation of Turkish companies to Russia and Ukraine with the advantages of ‘multimodal’ transportation.”
Güvenler, who stated that Russia imported 244 billion dollars and Ukraine imported 51 billion dollars in 2019, which is an export market of approximately 300 billion dollars, said that Türkiye can easily triple its exports to such two countries, i.e. 15 billion dollars, when looking at the types of products imported by Russia and Ukraine.
Güvenler emphasized that the Free Trade Agreement between Ukraine and Türkiye, which has reached the signature stage, could make it easier to achieve this goal.