Corridor 13 · recorded data
Portugal → Türkiye
Groupage road freight from Portugal to Türkiye takes 10.5 days on average, calculated from 21 shipments recorded in our operating system. This is the longest overland run we record within Europe — the consignment crosses the continent before it reaches the Turkish frontier, and here, unusually, distance genuinely is part of the answer.
Recorded shipments
21
0.2% of all recorded corridors
Average transit
10.5days
Mean across recorded shipments
Fastest record
5days
Shortest measured time
Longest record
14days
Exceptional case — not a typical value
Data as at 4 July 2026
The one lane where distance really is the answer
21 recorded shipments, 10.5 days on average, from 5 days at the fastest to 14 at the slowest. That makes Portugal the longest overland run in our European network.
Most of this site argues that distance is not what governs transit time — that waiting for a vehicle and waiting for customs matter more than kilometres. That argument holds across the network, and Poland running faster than Germany is a good example of it.
Portugal is where the argument reaches its limit. A consignment here crosses the Iberian peninsula and then most of a continent. At some point the road stops being a rounding error.
A narrow spread, for two reasons
Five to fourteen days is a tighter band than the average alone would lead you to expect. Two things produce it, and only one of them is flattering.
The unflattering one: 21 shipments is a small sample. It has not yet caught the consignment that sits at customs for three weeks. Larger lanes always eventually do.
The genuine one: a long run has a high floor. On a short lane the fast end is set by whether the consignment catches a departing vehicle — which can mean two days or ten. Here the driving itself imposes a minimum, and that compresses the range from below.
Portugal and Spain are almost the same lane
Spain averages 9.9 days on 292 recorded shipments. Portugal averages 10.5 on 21. The routes overlap for most of their length, and the difference between the two figures is smaller than the uncertainty around the Portuguese one.
Practically: if the goods could be collected on either side of that border, transit time is not the deciding factor. Where the goods actually sit, and how quickly the file is complete, will move the date further than the choice of country.
Inside the customs union
Portugal is in the EU, so A.TR applies for goods in free circulation, electronically issued with a QR code since 8 July 2024. What your specific consignment needs beyond that follows from the commodity code — see the customs guide.
Customs brokerage and cargo insurance sit inside our group. On a ten-day run, discovering a document problem at the frontier is an expensive way to learn that the file was incomplete.
See all recorded corridors for the full network.
Process
How a shipment moves
Five steps from collection to delivery. Every status change is logged as a record — the transit times on this page are calculated from those records.
- 01
Collection
Your consignment is picked up on the Italian domestic leg or at a European departure point.
- 02
Terminal consolidation
The vehicle is filled at one of our five terminals — this is where waiting time is cut.
- 03
Departure and transit
The vehicle sets off. Every status change is written to the system as a record.
- 04
Customs clearance
Declarations and documentation are handled by our own group company.
- 05
Delivery
Delivered door to door, and the file is closed.
Frequently asked questions
How long does road freight from Portugal to Türkiye take?
10.5 days on average, from 21 recorded shipments. The fastest took 5 days, the slowest 14. For planning, work with 9 to 13 days.
Why is this lane slower than the others?
Because it is genuinely the longest. On most of our corridors distance is not the limiting factor — waiting for the vehicle and for customs is. Portugal is the exception: a consignment crosses the Iberian peninsula and then the continent before it reaches the frontier, and those kilometres show up in the average.
The spread is only 5 to 14 days. Why so narrow?
Partly because the sample is small — 21 shipments have not yet produced an extreme customs case. Partly because a long overland run has a higher floor: the driving itself sets a minimum that shorter lanes do not have, which compresses the range from below.
How does it compare with the Spanish lane?
Spain averages 9.9 days against 10.5 here, on 292 recorded shipments versus 21. The two lanes share most of their route, and the gap between them is smaller than the uncertainty in the Portuguese figure. If your consignment could be collected in either country, the transit difference is not what should decide it.
Does the A.TR certificate apply?
Yes. Portugal is an EU member state, so shipments run inside the EU–Türkiye customs union and goods in free circulation travel with an A.TR movement certificate. Since 8 July 2024 an electronically issued A.TR with a QR code is accepted.
All lanes
Other corridors
Every recorded lane with shipment count and measured transit times.
| Corridor | Shipments | Average transit | Fastest record | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy → Türkiye | 8,511 | 6.3 days | 1 days | 85.2% |
| Germany → Türkiye | 477 | 6.0 days | 2 days | 4.8% |
| Spain → Türkiye | 292 | 9.9 days | 3 days | 2.9% |
| Netherlands → Türkiye | 132 | 7.1 days | 2 days | 1.3% |
| France → Türkiye | 118 | 9.6 days | 3 days | 1.2% |
| United Kingdom → Türkiye | 96 | 8.8 days | 3 days | 1.0% |
| Türkiye → Italy | 95 | 12.2 days | 3 days | 1.0% |
| Poland → Türkiye | 56 | 5.7 days | — | 0.6% |
| Belgium → Türkiye | 54 | 7.6 days | 3 days | 0.5% |
| Greece → Türkiye | 50 | 3.9 days | 2 days | 0.5% |
| Czechia → Türkiye | 43 | 5.5 days | 2 days | 0.4% |
| Austria → Türkiye | 25 | 6.2 days | 4 days | 0.3% |
| Portugal → Türkiyethis page | 21 | 10.5 days | 5 days | 0.2% |
| Switzerland → Türkiye | 20 | 5.1 days | 4 days | 0.2% |
means the fastest recorded value on that lane is not plausible as a transit time (a shipment booked out on the day it was collected). We leave it out rather than publish a figure we cannot stand behind. The average and the slowest value are unaffected.
Data as at 4 July 2026
