During 11 months of this year, Polish road inspectors checked about 15 thousand trucks owned by Ukrainian carriers and identified 9.4 thousand violations, according to Warsaw.
Poland has tightened control over Ukrainian carriers, especially on the roads leading to checkpoints where the border blockade is in place. Polish Minister of Infrastructure Alwin Gayadour said this, Ukrinform reported on Saturday, December 2.
“This control has been strengthened,” the minister assured at a press conference at the Wierzchowiska control point in the Lublin region.
According to him, “comprehensive control” is in place on the access roads leading to the checkpoints where the blockade is taking place. Instead, the carriers have previously pledged not to tighten the border blockade.
Traffic police, police, border guards and customs officers are involved in checking trucks at traveler service points (MOPs) and parking lots.
According to Gayadur, over 11 months of this year, Polish road inspectors checked about 15 thousand trucks belonging to Ukrainian carriers and identified 9.4 thousand violations. They were fined a total of 1.8 million zlotys (about 17 million hryvnias).
We remind you that since November 6, on the Ukrainian-Polish border, due to a strike, the movement of trucks at the Krakovets-Korcheva, Rava-Russkaya-Grebnoye and Yagodin-Dorogusk checkpoints has been difficult. There are thousands of trucks in the queue. On November 23, strikers blocked a fourth checkpoint, Shegini, for trucks. Polish carriers demand the abolition of the visa-free transport regime for Ukraine.
Polish farmers who joined the blockade of carriers at the Ukrainian border are planning their protest until January 3.
However, on December 1, it became known that Ukraine and Poland agreed on a number of conditions for unblocking the border for the movement of trucks.
Source: korrespondent
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