Syria signs eight investment contracts for the al-Tanf and al-Yarubiyah free zones on the Iraqi border

The announced activities are trade in petroleum products, manufacturing, storage warehouses, transit services and logistics. Plans at al-Tanf include industrial complexes and logistics centres; at al-Yarubiyah the projects focus on commercial and service facilities that support transit traffic.

Mazen Alloush of the customs authority told SANA the aim is to turn the border areas into centres of economic activity and to link Syrian ports and crossings with Iraqi and Gulf markets, and on to Turkish and European markets.

• Warehousing and cargo consolidation near the border
• Transit services for Syria–Iraq trade
• Industrial and petroleum-product activity

The names of the four companies, the investment values and the construction timelines were not published. Until the sites are built and operating, the contracts are a plan, not new capacity.

The zones sit on routes we already follow: our earlier note on Syria–Iraq border crossings covers the talks on faster transit and document processing.

If the zones open as planned, shippers moving goods between Syria, Iraq and the Gulf would gain places to store, consolidate and service cargo before it moves on, close to the border rather than at the ports only.

MIDTRANS arranges land freight and customs clearance on Syrian routes. We will follow the zones as they develop; ask us about the current options for your cargo.

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