[ad_1]
This is announced by the National Association of Linava Road Carriers of Lithuania. According to its president Romas Austinskas, already on the second day, neither Lithuanian nor foreign carriers can pass through the Lithuanian-Belarusian border, since the system administered by the Customs Department has not been in operation for so long.
In these systems, intermediaries have to generate information about the vehicles that leave and arrive with or without merchandise, but they cannot do so because they do not work.
The cargo also contains perishable products, such as food and other important cargo for the economy and trade.
The problem of empty tractors is not solved either, they are not missed either. Queues at border crossings are hit the hardest by drivers carrying goods because they are unable to return home or eat or do natural things like normal people because they are forced to wait.
The association “Linava” is talking to the Customs Department and responsible officials for the second day, but so far it is not possible to repair the servers.
Oleg Tarasov, member of the presidium of the Linava Association and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, claims that the situation is such that documents cannot be processed in the normal way upon arrival at customs.
“We can only provide declarations on paper. Everything happens 20 times slower and this results in large queues. As a result, hauliers suffer losses. One day of inactivity for a tractor costs 300 euros,” says O. Tarasov.
According to him, interruptions are common, it happens that the customs system does not work for several hours, but not for that long: “You can import or export, but not transit. The opposite is true. Interference occurs at night.
But we do not remember that the system would be paralyzed for so long ”. The interviewee points out that there are far fewer or no problems of this type in other countries.
The Customs Declarations Processing System (MDAS), the National Traffic Control System (NTKS) and the Data Collection and Processing System on Trade Flows of the Republic of Lithuania with the Member States of the European Union (EU) ( IDAIS) are inoperative for the second day.
Declarations on paper
According to the representative of the Customs Department, Vito Volungevičius, the performance of the trucks has slowed down because due to a technical failure of the systems, their declarations are sent on paper instead of electronically.
“Our servers are down, the specialists from the Customs Information Systems Center take care of them. They will try to put it in order at the end of the work, but this has not stopped the customs work, the activity is underway, the declarations are accepted on paper.
Previously, statements were sent electronically, “said V. Volungevičius.
