During March, LTG Cargo rejected 506 applications for rail transportation. Most of them (258) came from neighboring Belarus and concerned, among other things, state-controlled companies that tried to ship their goods through the railway network and ports of Lithuania. The rest were subject to the company’s “zero risk” approach in “compliance with EU, US, UN sanctions and other suspended or terminated contracts.” Railway Supply magazine writes about this with reference to RailFreight.

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There seems to be no end to attempts to circumvent sanctions in Lithuania. The Company has a strict policy regarding the provision of access to its rail network. One could say that this policy corresponds to a “better safe than sorry” approach since LTG declines all services looking suspicious or having unclear information regarding their compliance with international sanctions.

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As a result, not all denied transport requests correspond to sanctions circumvention attempts. However, there are some cases, especially in relation to the import/export of services from Belarus, that LTG really cannot take over, as they are organized by state-controlled Belarusian companies under sanctions. LTG and its investigation partners have scrutinised several companies to determine whether they deliberately attempt to break sanction rules.

The Lithuanian State Freight Company has received 2,391 transport requests since March 1, when it began implementing a stricter customs clearance policy.

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