The Chinese will make Piraeus a camel!

After ÇIN made an investment decision to turn the Port of Piraeus into a station where Chinese goods would be transferred to Europe and the Balkans, the Izmir business community warned that the value and importance of the Port of İzmir would decrease. Businessmen demanded that the port investments be made urgently.

İlçnur Denizli, President of Izmir Industrialists and Businessmen Association (İZSIAD), said that the issue of İzmir Port should be resolved urgently and quickly within a reasonable framework. Noting that everyone should think about what lies behind China's preference of the Port of Piraeus as an export base to Europe, Denizli said, "We must act in concert in the Port of Izmir. As a government, we also need to strengthen relations. The port business is not getting any better."

IZSIAD Chairman Denizli said that China's desire to use a port of transfer in the Mediterranean in exports to Europe was also an opportunity for Izmir, but that opportunity had escaped. "If deepenings had been made, ports had been rehabilitated, the tender was finished, the port would have stood on the table as one of the alternatives if the third generation ships had been organized in such a way as to enter. Unfortunately, he once lost to being an alternative."

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