The agreement to send the Trukish goods via Iran to Qatar has been signed between Turkey and Qatar. Iran will be the transit country to enable easy process between two Turkey and Qatar.
The newly-announced land trade route through Turkey, Iran and Qatar is expected to significantly reduce the cost of transportation of goods. The new trade line will lead to a decline of nearly 80 percent in the transportation cost of food items compared to air freight charges, say experts.
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. The distance between Mardin city (Turkey) and the port of Bushehr (Iran) is about 1,700km, which can be traveled by trucks in about 22 hours, while the distance between the Iranian port of Bushehr and Qatar’s Hamad Port is not much and the Turkish trucks can cross this distance between the two ports on Ro-Ro ships in just 8 hours. So a truck with Turkish goods can reach to Doha through this route in less than two days.
The agreement demostrates that Qatar will nto step down from its positions to Arab nations such as Saudi Arabia, Emirates and Egpty. Moreover it also demostrates the increasing Turkish influence in the region.
However, Iran involvement puts a risk on the agreement due to jeopolitic developments in Syria and Iraq. It is likely that Iran and Turkey will come in opposition due to conflicting interests in near future.
