Ceyhan Eliçin

Zeynep spent eight years reporting on Turkey's export sector for Dunya Ticaret Gazetesi. She covered port expansions, customs reforms, and carrier alliances, interviewing officials from the Ministry of Trade and logistics CEOs. She holds a Master's in International Relations from Sabancı University and has published analyses in Foreign Affairs Turkey. She now writes independently, focusing on policy impacts on freight costs. She writes to expose how geopolitical shifts ripple through shipping rates. Her focus is on the Red Sea crisis's effect on Turkish transit traffic and the Black Sea's emerging role. She draws from field visits to Ambarli and Samsun ports, tracking real-time cargo flows.