{"id":103218,"date":"2026-05-08T00:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/103218\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:25:24","slug":"iraqs-trebil-crossing-handles-1000-trucks-daily-amid-expansion-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/103218\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s Trebil crossing handles 1,000 trucks daily amid expansion plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-07T11:08:33+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shafaq News- Al-Anbar<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iraq\u2019s Trebil border crossing with Jordan is witnessing<br \/>\ngrowing commercial activity with around 1,000 trucks passing through the<br \/>\ncrossing each day, Rutba district commissioner Imad al-Rishawi told Shafaq News<br \/>\non Thursday. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crossing receives trucks carrying a wide range of goods,<br \/>\nincluding petroleum products, construction materials, sulfur, consumer goods,<br \/>\nand items distributed through Iraq\u2019s public food ration program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe growing traffic requires expanding storage and parking<br \/>\nareas and upgrading the crossing\u2019s infrastructure,\u201d Al-Rishawi said, noting<br \/>\nthat ongoing rehabilitation work includes developing several operational yards<br \/>\nand installing surveillance cameras and sonar systems to strengthen security<br \/>\nand organization inside the facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to al-Rishawi, the current level of trade activity<br \/>\nalso requires additional development and service projects within the border<br \/>\ncrossing. \u201cAuthorities are moving forward with maintenance and rehabilitation<br \/>\nwork on the remaining transport platforms and facilities,\u201d he stated, saying<br \/>\nthere are plans to prepare four platforms for operation during the next phase<br \/>\nto ease truck movement and reduce congestion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Trebil border <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Iraq-Trebil-trade-dips-after-tariff-hike-rebound-expected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crossing<\/a>, located in western Al-Anbar<br \/>\nprovince near the town of Rutba, is the only land crossing linking Iraq and<br \/>\nJordan and serves as a major trade and travel route between the two countries. According<br \/>\nto experts interviewed by Shafaq News earlier, Trebil accounts for about 45% of<br \/>\nIraq\u2019s total imports, with goods valued at more than $4 billion entering<br \/>\nthrough the crossing in 2024, far surpassing volumes handled by other ports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-07T11:08:33+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Al-Anbar Iraq\u2019s Trebil border crossing with Jordan is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[35885,15489,152,35886,94,35884,35887],"class_list":["post-103218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-000-trucks-daily-amid-expansion-plans","tag-borders","tag-breaking","tag-goods","tag-iraq","tag-iraqs-trebil-crossing-handles-1","tag-trebil"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116536116726914654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}