{"id":15631,"date":"2026-04-25T03:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/one-year-of-tir-system-operations-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:40:11","slug":"one-year-of-tir-system-operations-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/one-year-of-tir-system-operations-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year of TIR System Operations in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>By John Lee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>General Company for Land Transport (GCLT) <\/strong>has marked one year since the launch of the <em>International Road Transport (TIR)<\/em> system in Iraq, which came into operation in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s director-general, Mortada Karim Al-Shahmani, approximately 2,000 transit operations have been completed across Iraqi territory during the first year. Six new transport routes have been used by international operators, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hungary to Jordan in six days<\/li>\n<li>Poland to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) overland in ten days<\/li>\n<li>Turkey to Jordan in five days<\/li>\n<li>Turkey to Kuwait&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iraq-businessnews.com\/2026\/04\/25\/one-year-of-tir-system-operations-in-iraq\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Lee. The General Company for Land Transport (GCLT) has marked one year&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-1207"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}