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

In 2024, an estimated $9.8 billion of Morocco’s trade passed through the Turkish Straits, 7.5% of its seaborne trade. That is $2.5 billion of exports and $7.3 billion of imports. The partners with the most trade through it are Turkey, Romania and Kazakhstan.

Summary

Estimated value
$9.8billion
Of its seaborne trade
7.5%
Exports
$2.5billion
Imports
$7.3billion

Trend

Estimated value per year

Morocco’s estimated trade through the Turkish Straits rose 104% between 2019 and 2024

Value in USD billions

  • Morocco 9.8

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearEstimated valueOf its seaborne trade
1995$415 million3.1%
1996$358 million2.7%
1997$317 million2.4%
1998$383 million2.5%
1999$405 million2.6%
2000$399 million2.4%
2001$468 million2.8%
2002$535 million3%
2003$699 million3.5%
2004$1.1 billion4.4%
2005$1.3 billion4.5%
2006$1.5 billion4.6%
2007$1.8 billion4.3%
2008$2.6 billion4.8%
2009$1.6 billion4%
2010$1.8 billion3.9%
2011$3.1 billion5.4%
2012$3.3 billion5.5%
2013$3.7 billion6.2%
2014$3.7 billion6.1%
2015$3.7 billion6.7%
2016$4.1 billion7.1%
2017$4.4 billion6.9%
2018$5 billion7%
2019$4.8 billion6.7%
2020$4.5 billion7%
2021$6.1 billion7.1%
2022$7 billion6.6%
2023$6.7 billion6.5%
2024$9.8 billion7.5%

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. Morocco–Turkey$4.8 billion · 49.3%
  2. Morocco–Romania$2.6 billion · 26.6%
  3. Morocco–Kazakhstan$1.3 billion · 12.8%
  4. Morocco–Bulgaria$495 million · 5%
  5. Morocco–Ukraine$333 million · 3.4%
  6. Morocco–Russia$223 million · 2.3%
  7. Morocco–Azerbaijan$19 million · 0.19%
  8. Morocco–Uzbekistan$18 million · 0.18%
  9. Morocco–Moldova$17 million · 0.17%
  10. Morocco–Georgia$7 million · 0.07%

What crosses it

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

  1. Auto parts$1.1 billion · 11.2%
  2. Cars$1 billion · 10.6%
  3. Sulfur$883 million · 9%
  4. Spark-ignition engines$334 million · 3.4%
  5. Refined petroleum$326 million · 3.3%
  6. Cables and wire$281 million · 2.9%
  7. Wheat$274 million · 2.8%
  8. Mixed fertilizers$253 million · 2.6%
  9. Semi-finished steel$225 million · 2.3%
  10. Natural phosphates$220 million · 2.2%

Reference ports

Tangier (30%) and Casablanca (70%)

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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