The corresponding decision has already been published on the portal of legal information. It says the ban can be applied to vehicles registered in states that have “imposed restrictive measures against citizens of the Russian Federation and Russian legal entities in the field of international road freight transport.” If the ban is introduced, the government must determine the time, the list of states, the types of traffic that are restricted and the conditions under which the ban does not apply.
In fact, this is a “mirror measure”: at the beginning of April, EU countries stopped allowing vehicles from Russia and Belarus through their territory. The exception was the transport of medical, food and agricultural products, the supply of energy carriers, non-ferrous metals and fertilisers. However, 3.1 thousand Russian car companies with a total fleet of 45 thousand roadtrains and a workforce of more than 70 thousand people were forced to stop working in the European market.
On the Russian side, the ban could have been introduced as early as April, but then the decision was postponed by representatives of major Russian companies, who argued that the ban would disrupt the supply of important goods from Europe – machine tools, conveyor belts, spare parts, materials , explains RBC, citing its own source. But in June, the Association of International Road Carriers (ASMAP) proposed a ban.
ASMAP’s arguments are as follows: due to the lack of competition, European carriers have sharply increased the tariffs for transport from EU countries, while domestic carriers cannot quickly adapt to work in Russia and friendly countries.
As a result, they suffer losses, which on June 1, amounted to more than 9 billion rubles. ASMAP proposed to ban trucks from Europe to the Russian Federation and from there deliver goods by reloading at the border – such a system is used in Belarus.
- Freight forwarders turned to Putin with a request to ban the mobilization of drivers.
- “Behind the Wheel” can be seen on RuTube.
Source: Z R
