ROAD TRANSPORT

What are the advantages and disadvantages of road transport?

The following table shows the advantages and disadvantages of road transport. The most important advantage of road transportation is that low amounts of products are flexibly and quickly transported at short and medium distances. In this way, companies provide the opportunity to perform "just in time" deliveries brought by order-based work. In addition, the waiting periods to be experienced in ports are by-passed and the products can be delivered directly to the warehouses of customers. Especially for road shipments to European Union countries, buyers can quickly take their goods to their warehouses. Products can be delivered to buyers by road transport in trust as by maritime transport.

The most important disadvantage of road transport is that it has expensive transport costs. In addition, the amount of freight that can be transported by road and the limited distance that can be reached at maximum is another disadvantage of road transport. Finally, we can point out the other disadvantages of road transport, which is not very convenient for payments with letters of credit and payments against documents.

Advantages:
Fast transportation
Opportunity to easily deliver to the customer's warehouse
Safe transportation

Disadvantages:
High costs
Compliance with only short and medium-distance transports

What is the role of road transport in Turkey's exports?
Road transportation is the preferred method of transporting 36.3% of Turkey's foreign trade moneywise. It is possible to transport export cargoes from Turkey to Balkan countries by road transport in the west direction, and to other European countries via Italy by ro-ro transport, to many ports of Russia by ro-ro transport in the north-northeast direction, to Georgia and Iran by land, and to the Middle East countries in the southeast direction by land.