Re: Announcement

Dear Member,
With reference to the letter sent to our Chamber by TOBB, the announcement made by the Directorate General of International Trade in Services of the Ministry of Trade states that, according to up-to-date information received from the Commercial Counsellor's Office in Kyiv, as a result of an attack carried out by Russia with unmanned aerial vehicles on the Orlivka port and border infrastructure in the city of Izmail in the Odesa region of Ukraine, two TIR trucks owned by a Turkish company waiting at the Orlivka checkpoint were completely burnt; that the products received from Ukraine were planned to be transported by the TIR trucks to Iraq via Türkiye; that
two drivers, one of them a Turkish citizen, were injured; that the health condition of our Turkish driver is not life-threatening; that, in addition, it was learned that the existing insurance of the said Turkish company on the TIR trucks did not cover war risks; and that, in the current situation, the activities of the Orlivka Checkpoint have been suspended by the relevant Ukrainian authority.

Kind regards,
Elazığ Chamber of Commerce and Industry