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Dec 5, 2015

BORDER TROUBLES * Turkey / Russia

* Trucks carrying Turkish exports blocked at Russian border
-- Around 1,250 trucks carrying Turkish exports have been blocked from entering Russia and are stranded at border posts awaiting clearance... Six days after NATO-member Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet in the first known incident of its kind since the Cold War, calls for calm have gone largely unheeded. Ankara refuses to back down and Russia responds with sanctions... Trucks are stranded in Ukraine and Georgia for checks, which Sener says now are more thorough than before and that the economic cost of the delay since last Wednesday is around $50,000 to $60,000. Furthermore, a total of 800 containers are also waiting for clearance in the Turkish Black Sea port of Samsun and at the Russian port of Novorossiysk... Around 100 trucks awaiting transit passage at the Russian border are now seeking alternative routes. "Azerbaijan has allowed entry and these trucks will go to Central Asia through this route, which is much more costly" ... Turkey mainly sells food, agricultural products and textiles to Moscow and is also one of the most popular holiday destinations for Russians. Around 50 percent of Turkey's exports into Russia, which totaled $6 billion last year, go by land...
(Photo from ANN.az News Azerbaijan: Trucks carrying Turkish exports blocked at Russian border)  --  Istanbul, Turkey - Reuters, by Ceyda Caglayan/Humeyra Pamuk/Nick Tattersall and Ralph Boulton - Nov 30, 2015

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