Linava: truck inspection in Belarus has stabilized, some carriers have changed their route

“The work at the border has stabilized, the cars are checked at the border and they continue to drive, but they are no longer sent to internal customs,” Romas Austinskas told BNS.

Last week, he said that around 200 trucks were standing at Minsk customs alone at a time, some of them spent a few days there. At present, according to R. Austinskas, there are 28 cars waiting at customs for ten days.

“This morning there were 28 cars at Minsk customs, which were stopped for ten days. It can be said that they are ridiculed because they do not check for ten days, they lengthen the time, they write down invoices.” … But no new ones arrive at that customs, “he said.

Zenon Buivydas, Linava’s secretary general, said that some carriers are trying to steer the tugs across the Latvian-Russian border to avoid Belarus.

“It just came to our attention then. Senders and recipients are afraid to send, which creates the conditions for traveling through Belarus. But in this case, the border between Latvia and Belarus begins to be blocked,” Z. Buivydas told BNS .

Giedrius Mišutis, head of the Prevention Division of the State Border Guard Service (SBGS), told BNS on Thursday that the situation on the border between Lithuania and Belarus is normal. According to him, there were 30 trucks waiting in line at the Medininkai point, waiting approximately 1.5 hours, at Šalčininkai; almost 20 cars parked for about three hours, waiting at Lavoriškės point about an hour, there was no truck queue at Raigardas point.

At that time, about 200 trucks are waiting at the Terekhov border point on the border between Latvia and Russia, but this is a normal situation, according to data from the Latvian border guards, said G. Mišutis.

“At Terechov point, the only wait is about 200 tractors, but according to them, this is a completely normal situation, and at the other two points there are no queues,” G. Mišutis told BNS.

Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko said in mid-September that Belarus was closing its borders with Lithuania and Poland, but border guards said traffic on the Lithuanian-Belarusian border was normal.

However, after Belarus tightened the inspection of the country’s trucks at the border with Lithuania, R. Austinskas previously stated that this does not allow carriers to deliver cargo on time, moreover, their transport has become more expensive: Carriers have to pay for additional inspections and downtime.