Russia imposes mandatory escorts on Lithuanian trucks

[Aunt Hilda]

Russia on Friday imposed a new restriction for Lithuanian road haulers, forcing them to carry goods from the border to internal customs offices under escort.


A spokesman for the Lithuanian haulers’ association ‘Linava’ says that the country’s haulers are becoming uncompetitive and that they have suffered around 10 million euros in losses in a week.


“Today Russia began to apply the escort requirement from the border to internal customs offices in various locations. To our knowledge, 40 trucks have already been escorted. One such escort, for example, to Moscow costs 900 litas (EUR 261),” Gytis Vincevičius, the spokesman of ‘Linava’, told BNS.


Vincevičius said that it was not clear at the moment on what basis Russia had imposed the new requirement. “We are becoming uncompetitive not only in terms of (delivery) time, but also in terms of transportation prices,” he said.


The spokesman said that Lithuanian haulers’ losses in the past week were roughly estimated at least at 10 million euros.


Russia at the start of this month tightened checks on passenger cars from Lithuania, and on 12 September, on trucks. Haulers said last Wednesday that trucks carrying perishable goods were not longer being subjected to extra detailed checks.


According to ‘Linava’, around 650 Lithuanian-registered transport companies with some 13,000 trucks ship goods to Russia.

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http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/5129...cks-201351299/

[Loki]

Escorts as in prostitutes? Cool.

[Aunt Hilda]

Escorts as in prostitutes? Cool.

no, not like that.

[Shah-Jehan]

Escorts as in prostitutes? Cool.

[Aunt Hilda]

btw there's no reason for this blockade. it seems to be purely political.

[Shah-Jehan]

btw there's no reason for this blockade. it seems to be purely political.

Karl plotted a conspiracy to harm Lithuania's relation with Russia

[Aunt Hilda]

Karl plotted a conspiracy to harm Lithuania's relation with Russia

what relationship?

[Loki]

btw there's no reason for this blockade. it seems to be purely political.

If Lithuanians stopped being so anti-Russian things like these wouldn't happen.

[glass]

well done, Russia! Keep it up!
should be done long ago btw

[Aunt Hilda]

If Lithuanians stopped being so anti-Russian things like these wouldn't happen.

right, I doubt this has anything to do with anti-Russian sentiment in the Baltics but rather Lithuania steering the EU presidency and the eastern Partnership program.

but feel free to share more of your genius geopolitical analysis