Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

In the meeting, firstly, parliamentary speaker Gökhan Tezel made a sector evaluation.

Tezel stated that, according to EPDK reports, in 2016, the sales of bottled LPG was 820,633 tons and increased by 0.6% compared to the previous year; 142,740 tons of bulk gas, sales decreasing by 19%; growth in automobile gas sales has declined compared to the past years, for the first time last year in December it experienced a contraction with an end-of-year growth rate of 2.4%.