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How much of Israel’s trade passes through the Turkish Straits?

In 2024, an estimated $4 billion of Israel’s trade passed through the Turkish Straits, 5.5% of its seaborne trade. That is $1.1 billion of exports and $2.8 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are Turkey, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

Summary

Estimated value
$4billion
Of its seaborne trade
5.5%
Exports
$1.1billion
Imports
$2.8billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Israel’s estimated trade through the Turkish Straits fell 39% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Israel 4

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$779 million2.2%
1996$749 million2%
1997$788 million2.1%
1998$832 million2.2%
1999$939 million2.3%
2000$1.1 billion2.7%
2001$1.2 billion3.1%
2002$1.4 billion3.5%
2003$1.6 billion3.8%
2004$2.4 billion4.6%
2005$2.9 billion5%
2006$3.5 billion5.7%
2007$4.2 billion8.2%
2008$9 billion13.9%
2009$4.6 billion8%
2010$6 billion8.7%
2011$6.2 billion7.4%
2012$6.9 billion8.6%
2013$6.4 billion7.8%
2014$7.9 billion9.3%
2015$4.3 billion6%
2016$4.2 billion6.5%
2017$4.6 billion6.7%
2018$8.1 billion11%
2019$6.5 billion9.5%
2020$4.7 billion7.5%
2021$6.5 billion8.2%
2022$7.8 billion8.4%
2023$7.3 billion8.9%
2024$4 billion5.5%

Partners whose trade crosses it

Estimated value of its trade with each partner that crosses the chokepoint; the percentage is the share of all its trade through the chokepoint, not of the pair’s trade.

  1. Israel–Turkey$957 million · 24%
  2. Israel–Azerbaijan$819 million · 20.5%
  3. Israel–Ukraine$801 million · 20.1%
  4. Israel–Romania$579 million · 14.5%
  5. Israel–Bulgaria$315 million · 7.9%
  6. Israel–Kazakhstan$199 million · 5%
  7. Israel–Russia$198 million · 5%
  8. Israel–Georgia$58 million · 1.4%
  9. Israel–Uzbekistan$32 million · 0.81%
  10. Israel–Moldova$22 million · 0.56%

What crosses it

The products with the highest estimated value in 2024, with their share of the total through the chokepoint.

  1. Crude petroleum$835 million · 20.9%
  2. Refined petroleum$474 million · 11.9%
  3. Corn$182 million · 4.6%
  4. Live cattle$89 million · 2.2%
  5. Pesticides and herbicides$76 million · 1.9%
  6. Cables and wire$75 million · 1.9%
  7. Cars$71 million · 1.8%
  8. Buses$64 million · 1.6%
  9. Meal from other oilseeds$60 million · 1.5%
  10. Aircraft parts$53 million · 1.3%

Reference ports

Haifa (98%) and Eilat (2%)

Each port with the weight it receives from the country’s trade, based on where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest.

Other chokepoints it uses

Sources and method

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Methodology

We estimate the value crossing each chokepoint from BACI trade that travels by sea according to our mode heuristic, split between each country’s ports by where its GDP is generated and which coast is closest, and routed over our own sea network. It is an estimate, not a count of ships. It covers 99.9% of seaborne trade. The approach follows Verschuur, Lumma and Hall (Nature Communications, 2025). Data up to 2024.

The Bosporus and the Dardanelles are counted together: they are the two gates between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

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