Foreign Trade Analysis According to Transportation in Turkey: Current Status, Problems and Prospects

Turkey is one of the few countries in the world that locates geographically in the middle of the three great continents and makes maritime, air, rail and road transportation by many countries/regions. however, turkey hasn’t reflected this geographical superiority to foreign trade sufficiently. transportation system has been concentrated in the certain areas due not to constitute multi-modal transport form created by the transportation policies of european union. for instance, although a large part of the export has been carried by maritime transport, there are inadequate links of rail transportation with the major exportation ports because of the negative geographical conditions. in addition, the volume of the rail transport is low, whereas road transport is high. therefore, it hasn’t been established an effective and sustainable transport system that enables to bring the products to buyers from sellers at the least cost. in this study, it is to analyze the foreign trade, especially export transportation forms of turkey.