Bartın TSO President Halil Balık Attended the Opening Ceremony of the Gürbulak Border Gate

The Gürbulak Border Gate, whose modernization works have been completed, was opened to service with a ceremony attended by Minister of Trade Ömer Bolat and the President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye (TOBB) M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu. The President of the Board of Directors of Bartın Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Halil Balık, also attended the opening programme.

Speaking at the ceremony, TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that modernized border gates make significant contributions to Türkiye's foreign trade capacity, and that strengthening logistics infrastructure increases Türkiye's competitiveness in global trade.

In a statement after the ceremony, President Halil Balık noted that the modernization of the Gürbulak Border Gate carries strategic importance in terms of accelerating our country's foreign trade processes, reducing logistics costs and strengthening export capacity, and stated that the investments made will make significant contributions to the business community and the national economy.

As the Bartın Chamber of Commerce and Industry, we regard as important every investment and project that strengthens our country's trade infrastructure, accelerates export processes and increases competitiveness in international trade networks; we believe that the strategic steps taken in production, trade and logistics make significant contributions to the development of the business community and the sustainable growth of the national economy. So that the Bartın business community can benefit to the fullest extent from this developing trade and logistics infrastructure, we will continue to stand by our members and support them.