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Shafaq News-
Al-Anbar
Iraq’s only
land crossing with Jordan, Trebil, is handling roughly 1,400 trucks a day, but
shuts down overnight, creating bottlenecks that a senior local official says
are costing both countries trade.
Imad
al-Rishawi, deputy commissioner of al-Rutba district in western al-Anbar
province, told Shafaq News on Tuesday that extending operations at the crossing
to 24 hours a day is necessary as import and export activity has surged in
recent weeks, with hundreds of loaded trucks crossing in both directions daily.
The
crossing’s external yards can absorb the rising volume, al-Rishawi said, “but
the bottleneck lies in administrative procedures that slow clearance and stack
up waiting times.”
Al-Rishawi
said coordination with the Jordanian side has become essential, and that a
24-hour crossing would directly ease congestion and strengthen economic ties
between the two countries.