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BORDER TROUBLES * Saudi Arabian/UAE - Turkish trucks delayed at Saudi-UAE border
Al-Ghuwaifat,Dubai -Today's Zaman (Turkey), by RÜŞTÜ KAYHAN SOYDAN -13 June 2009: -- Held up by rigorous customs procedures at the Saudi Arabian-UAE border, hundreds of Turkish trucks have joined in long queues waiting at the Al-Ghuwaifat border gate to enter Saudi Arabia... One of the biggest problems the truck drivers face is the hot weather, exceeding 50 degrees Centigrade and above seasonal norms. By last week, trucks in the queue numbered in the thousands. The delays at the border have reportedly been happening for the past month; it is taking drivers up to 16 hours to move just two kilometers. Many say they have almost run out of food and drink and that they are finding it difficult to stand the heat... Saudi officials figures show that some 900,000 trucks passed through the Al Batha border gate in 2007, while this number reached 1 million in 2008. The trade volume between the UAE and Saudi Arabia skyrocketed to $15 billion in 2008 from $1.3 billion in 2007. The trucks transport a wide range of goods from food, textiles and leather to electronics and motor vehicles between the two countries...Labels: border troubles
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