18.11.2018 Edirne
TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu visited the Kapıkule Customs Gate and TIR Park together with the Trade Minister, Ruhsar Pekcan.
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.