{"id":131450,"date":"2026-05-26T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/131450\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:55:08","slug":"iraq-jordan-border-crossing-needs-24-7-operations-to-handle-1400-daily-trucks-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/131450\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq-Jordan border crossing needs 24\/7 operations to handle 1,400 daily trucks &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-26T09:39:10+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>Shafaq News-<br \/>\nAl-Anbar<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s only<br \/>\nland crossing with Jordan, Trebil, is handling roughly 1,400 trucks a day, but<br \/>\nshuts down overnight, creating bottlenecks that a senior local official says<br \/>\nare costing both countries trade.<\/p>\n<p>Imad<br \/>\nal-Rishawi, deputy commissioner of al-Rutba district in western al-Anbar<br \/>\nprovince, told Shafaq News on Tuesday that extending operations at the crossing<br \/>\nto 24 hours a day is necessary as import and export activity has surged in<br \/>\nrecent weeks, with hundreds of loaded trucks crossing in both directions daily.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ncrossing&#8217;s external yards can absorb the rising volume, al-Rishawi said, \u201cbut<br \/>\nthe bottleneck lies in administrative procedures that slow clearance and stack<br \/>\nup waiting times.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Al-Rishawi<br \/>\nsaid coordination with the Jordanian side has become essential, and that a<br \/>\n24-hour crossing would directly ease congestion and strengthen economic ties<br \/>\nbetween the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-26T09:39:10+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Al-Anbar Iraq&#8217;s only land crossing with Jordan, Trebil,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[44059,152,94,44058,654,35887],"class_list":["post-131450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-400-daily-trucks","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-jordan-border-crossing-needs-24-7-operations-to-handle-1","tag-jordan","tag-trebil"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116640279760184673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131450","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=131450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}