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

In 2024, an estimated $6.1 billion of Moldova’s trade passed through the Turkish Straits, 82.6% of its seaborne trade. That is $1.6 billion of exports and $4.4 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are China, Germany and Poland.

Summary

Estimated value
$6.1billion
Of its seaborne trade
82.6%
Exports
$1.6billion
Imports
$4.4billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Moldova’s estimated trade through the Turkish Straits rose 34% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Moldova 6.1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$931 million75.4%
1996$1.3 billion73.9%
1997$1.4 billion72%
1998$1.2 billion80.1%
1999$624 million81%
2000$1 billion84.5%
2001$1.1 billion84.7%
2002$1.2 billion84.1%
2003$1.4 billion80.9%
2004$1.8 billion81%
2005$2.2 billion80%
2006$2.3 billion81%
2007$3 billion78.2%
2008$3.7 billion78.1%
2009$2.6 billion77.4%
2010$3.2 billion80.2%
2011$3.9 billion78.7%
2012$3.9 billion78.5%
2013$3.9 billion78.3%
2014$4 billion80.4%
2015$3.1 billion81%
2016$3.3 billion81.2%
2017$3.9 billion80.5%
2018$4.5 billion82.8%
2019$4.5 billion81.4%
2020$4.1 billion80.6%
2021$5.6 billion78.8%
2022$6.5 billion78.5%
2023$6 billion81.2%
2024$6.1 billion82.6%

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. Moldova–China$1 billion · 16.7%
  2. Moldova–Germany$672 million · 11.1%
  3. Moldova–Poland$511 million · 8.4%
  4. Moldova–Italy$503 million · 8.3%
  5. Moldova–Czechia$401 million · 6.6%
  6. Moldova–France$213 million · 3.5%
  7. Moldova–Russia$195 million · 3.2%
  8. Moldova–Spain$186 million · 3.1%
  9. Moldova–United States$177 million · 2.9%
  10. Moldova–Hungary$162 million · 2.7%

What crosses it

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

  1. Cars$476 million · 7.9%
  2. Cables and wire$423 million · 7%
  3. Wheat$137 million · 2.3%
  4. Refined petroleum$125 million · 2.1%
  5. Wine$104 million · 1.7%
  6. Fruit and vegetable juices$96 million · 1.6%
  7. Tractors$80 million · 1.3%
  8. Sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil$75 million · 1.2%
  9. Corn$72 million · 1.2%
  10. Sunflower seeds$68 million · 1.1%

Reference ports

Constanța (100%)

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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