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Wednesday evening around 6 pm In the queue, about 600 vehicles were waiting to enter Lithuania from Belarus in this position, now much less.
According to Laimis Žlabis, head of the Customs Control Organization Department, specialists from the Customs Information Systems Center promised to restore them before 2 pm, but he has not received any signal yet, no call that they will be recovered at that time.
So far, truck drivers are filling out paper statements. But customs officials with border guards also found a couple of ways to speed up the work.
“If previously only 88 trucks arriving from Belarus managed to pass in one day, 360 trucks had already crossed the border post on the last day.
Currently, around 60 of them are waiting to leave Lithuania. There were about 100 people waiting to leave Lithuania yesterday, ”said L.Žlabys.
According to him, although the customs IT system is not yet functional, customs officials working at the Medininkai post office are currently assisted by officials from other border posts. According to L.Žlabis, the more employees there are in the mail, the faster drivers fill out customs declarations.
“Together with the border guards, we found another important solution. We have taken advantage of this circumstance: it is now a pandemic, with only one other car crossing the border checkpoint.
That is why we made an additional corridor in the passenger terminal for empty trucks without cargo.
And this Plan B of ours has worked: an unloaded tractor clears in 5 minutes. Our fellow Belarusians have also kept their promise and done the same. Therefore, we hope to eliminate the queues before the IT system goes live, ”said L.Žlabys.
“I don’t want to be a prophet, but I hope everything will be solved on this day,” he added.
Queues formed at the border due to a customs server failure. This is said to have been due to a technical infrastructure problem caused by technological and moral depreciation.
Customs works on paper declarations on both Wednesday and Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Lithuanian National Association of Road Transporters “Linava” estimates that even more trucks were stuck at the Lithuanian-Belarusian border tonight, especially on the neighboring country side.
According to the latest data, on the Belarusian side it is around 2 thousand. On the Lithuanian side, the queue narrowed slightly: in the morning, around 300 trucks were stuck at internal customs posts, unable to move from one side to the other.
