Exit and entry movement for vehicles weighing more than 7.5 tons without cargo will be opened from February 13 at the planned “Nijankovychi-Malhovice” checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Polish border, the Western Regional Department of the State Border Service reports on Facebook.
“From 8 a.m. on February 13 … will begin the implementation of the passage operations of cargo vehicles with a maximum weight of more than 7.5 tons, without cargo. The passage of trucks will be carried out around the clock in the direction of departure from Ukraine and on the entrance”, – said the officer of the press service of the Lviv border detachment Oleksandra Kuchkovskaya.
The new checkpoint is expected to unload the existing checkpoints on the border with Poland and speed up cargo and passenger logistics at the border. The point also provides for the movement of cars and the possibility of crossing for pedestrians.
As reported, the project of the mentioned crossing has been frozen since 2007. Work on its development intensified after a full-scale invasion by Russia, when the need to expand the capacity of existing border crossing points and the construction of new ones came to the fore. The construction of the Nijankovichi-Malhowice border crossing point was completed in cooperation with the Polish side under the Open Border project and became possible after the completion of the Nijankovich-Drohobych-Stryj road section, which leads to the border crossing point.
A total of 7 checkpoints for cars operate on the border with Poland: Dorohusk-Yagodin, Hrebenne-Rava-Russkaya, Korcheva-Krakivets, Kroszenko-Smilnytsia, Medyka-Sheginy. Points Zosin-Ustilug and Budomir-Hrushev are designed for crossing by vehicles weighing up to 3.5 tons.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine suggests obliging the State Border Guard Service to provide the Pension Fund (PFR) with information on people who crossed the state border, as well as entered or exited the temporarily occupied territory.
The corresponding bill #9004 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on February 8, but the text is not currently available on the website of the Parliament.
At the same time, the government representative in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk said that the purpose of the document is to provide the PFU access to the integrated interagency information and communication system to control persons, vehicles and cargo crossing the state border.
“The draft law proposes to provide the following: The State Border Service of Ukraine is obliged to provide the Pension Fund of Ukraine for implementation of its powers in the sphere of obligatory state social and pension insurance information about recipients who crossed the state border of Ukraine or entered/exited the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine through entry-exit control points”, – he wrote in his telegram-channel.
Travel through three checkpoints on the Ukrainian-Polish border may be complicated due to protests on February 2-3, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has said.
“On February 2 and 3, 2023 on the access roads to the checkpoints “Korchova – Krakivets”, “Medika – Shehyni” and on February 2, 2023 on the access road to the checkpoint “Hrebenne – Rava-Russkaya” from the Polish side, protests are planned, which may affect the movement of vehicles crossing the state border. Please consider this information in order to properly plan your trips”, – reported in Telegram-channel of the State Border Service.
The border service does not report on the exact location of the protests and the demands of the protesters.
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Because of the snowfall that began on Thursday, the movement of transport to the state border checkpoints in several regions has slowed down, the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported.
“The longest queues were formed on the border with Poland at the entrance to the checkpoints “Shehyni”, “Krakivets”, “Rava-Russkaya” in Lviv region, as well as before the checkpoints “Yagodin” and “Ustilug” in Volyn,” – said in the message.
It specifies that at the same time checkpoints in Transcarpathian and Chernivtsi regions are not overloaded.
“Take this information into account when crossing (the border – IF-U). In the meantime, border guards together with employees of the National Police, if necessary, carry out reverse traffic to pass cars and try to clear passengers and vehicles as quickly as possible”, – summarized in the State Border Guard Service.
Passenger flow through western border of Ukraine in Sept 2022, thousand (graphically)
Data: State Border Service
Associations uniting motor carriers of Lithuania and seven other European Union (EU) countries are calling for the problem of queues of trucks at the Ukraine-EU border to be solved, the Lithuanian national association of motor carriers Linava has said.
The association estimates that at present there is a queue of over 40 kilometers on the Ukrainian side at one of the border crossings between Romania and Ukraine, over 25 kilometers – on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, and about 15 kilometers – on the Ukrainian-Slovak border.
Linava, together with the International Road Transport Union (IRU) and its members, has approached the European Commission (EC) with a proposal to introduce priority border crossing lines for International Road Transport (TIR), which would increase the number of trucks crossing the border into Ukraine by 2 to 3 times.
According to Linava Secretary General Zenon Buivydas, waiting for trucks at the Ukrainian border can take up to several days, which, he says, creates a number of problems for trucking firms and truckers alike.
The appeal to the EC and its President was signed by IRU President Radu Dinescu and Secretary General Umberto de Pretto, as well as Buividas and representatives of carriers from Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia, Slovakia, Latvia, Hungary, Turkey, Romania and Poland.
