Automotiv_September

Monthly automotive aftermarket magazine
Auto market targets over $30B
for exports
Baran Çelik, the chairman of Uludağ Automotive Industry Exporters' Association (OİB)
Baran Çelik, the chairman of Uludağ
Automotive Industry Exporters'
Association (OİB), said Bursa's share
in the automotive sector is around
40 percent.
"We call Bursa the 'capital of the
automotive industry.' OİB, the
export champion in Turkey for 12
years, is also located in Bursa for
this very reason," Çelik said. "The
investments being made in the
city in the past years are making
the automotive and subsidiary
industries sustainable. Bursa will
keep its position in both the general
industry and the automotive sector
in Turkey by strengthening it
thereafter."
Noting that the new industrial zones
established in Bursa in recent years
will help overcome the bottlenecks
at this point, he stressed that the
automotive industry for Bursa is
very important just as Bursa is for
the industry.
"Because Bursa has every kind of
supply source that the automotive
industry needs. The automotive
sub-industry is positioned in four
to five segments like plastic, metal,
electronics, et cetera. Almost
all of their world-renowned
organizations are in Bursa now,"
Çelik stated. The OİB chairman
earlier this month said automotive
industry exports will exceed $30
billion in 2018. Noting that the
industry aimed for $29 billion in
2018, Çelik had said, "If we look
at the data for the first half of the
year, we reached an export level of
$16.4 billion. This shows us that we
will exceed far beyond our aim. We
will exceed over $30 billion."
He said $16.4 billion of exports
in 2018 were an all-time record
for the first half of a year. Turkish
automotive sector's exports
reached $28.5 billion in 2017.
According to the Turkish Exporters'
Assembly (TİM), automotive was
the leading sector with $2.5
billion exports in June. The sector's
exports increased by 1.9 percent
compared to the same month the
previous year.
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