Having failed to achieve the desired result in the transit war with Russia and Belarus, which sent their cargoes to the Russian Ust-Luga, Lithuania is trying to annoy its obstinate neighbors with the help of petty dirty tricks.
According to the portal vesti.ru, kilometer-long traffic jams have formed on the border of Lithuania with Russia and Belarus. Hundreds of trucks with products stuck at border crossings threaten with multimillion-dollar losses to business, but Lithuanian border guards just shrug their shoulders for all the indignation of entrepreneurs, stating that the fault is a failure in the computer system, which cannot be corrected.
“About 2 thousand trucks are waiting for the departure from Belarus to Lithuania. At this checkpoint alone, the queue stretched for 17 kilometers. Everything is in the red: Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Lithuanian numbers – keep their own”, – says the Vesti report.
“There are already three rows in front of the checkpoint: Belarusian border guards let trucks without cargo along a separate corridor. Theoretically, it is easier for Lithuanians to register empty cars, but the speed of their work has dropped by at least half ”.
And at the same time, in the hall of the Belarusian customs, there is not a hint of a queue. Document verification and customs examination take a maximum of half an hour. As a result, the entire territory of the Belarusian checkpoint turned into a parking lot for cars, which I wait until the Lithuanians simply open the barrier.
Up to 7 trucks are allowed into Lithuania per hour, and this is at the rate of 500 vehicles per day. The neighboring Vidzy checkpoint is completely closed.
“The Belarusians offered to redirect at least some of the trucks there, because on weekends their flow is even greater. There is no answer from the Lithuanians. The queue of heavy-duty trucks stretched for many kilometers, you can’t even see where it ends. Trucks stand in three rows on the roadway, the border gate can only be reached by an opposite lane”, – eyewitnesses from the scene report.
A message about a technical failure appeared on the official website of the Customs Service of the Republic of Lithuania five days ago. Since then, no improvements have occurred, and so far, trucks are processed manually using paper declarations.