Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia called on the EU to stop road and sea communication with the Russian Federation.

Road and sea communication

The Ministers of Transport of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia appealed to the European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean to introduce a ban on the transport of goods from and to the territory of the Russian Federation and Belarus.

This is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply with reference to gov.pl.

The document notes that Russian aggression against Ukraine daily causes suffering to millions of citizens of Ukraine.

Therefore, the Polish government comes up with initiatives demonstrating unequivocal condemnation of the actions of the Russian Federation and Belarus.

The Minister of Infrastructure of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Adamczyk, together with his colleagues from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, called on the European Union to take immediate measures in the field of road and maritime transport, which will be applied throughout the EU.

“In recent weeks, the European Union has taken decisive and unprecedented measures, hitting the Russian economy with sanctions, including in the air transport sector. However, the Russian military machine is still working due to the cargoes transported daily by Russian and Belarusian trucks,” the letter explains.

In the field of road transport, the ministers proposed to completely ban the transportation of goods from and to the territory of the Russian Federation and Belarus.

In addition, the letter proposed to exclude the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus from the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) and withdraw the permissions of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) for road transport for carriers from these countries.

In the maritime sector, the heads of departments called on the EU to take all necessary measures to prohibit or further restrict the mooring of Russian and Belarusian vessels in EU ports.

Though, there is no mention of railway communication in the letter.

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