KYIV. June 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry will toughen control over the issue and use of permits for international transportation by road.
“Tomorrow Yuriy Lavreniuk, Yehor Stefanovych and Mykhailo Noniak will start digitizing these documents for online exchange of data with the Ukrainian customs office and partner countries. The data documents trucks crossing Ukraine’s borders. The haulers or unfair persons who create the artificial shortage [of permits] would be severely punished,” Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan wrote on his Facebook page.
He added that the matter with Ukrainian haulers that recently faced inconveniences with crossing the Turkish border has been settled.
“Next week we will hold additional consultations with Turkey to avoid such cases,” he said.
The minister said that this problem is systemic.
“We have many permits for international transportation that are passed from one hands to another and become a source of corruption instead of working. There are frequent cases when Ukrainian haulers complain about the absence of the possibility to ship cargos to other states, while neighboring countries say Ukrainian haulers have a lot of unused permits,” the minister said.
