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.
