The warning action continued for an hour in support of Polish colleagues demanding a limit on the number of Ukrainian trucks entering the European Union.
On Thursday, November 16, the Union of Road Carriers of Slovakia (UNAS) from 13:00 blocked the checkpoint on the border with Ukraine “Vyshne Nemecke – Uzhgorod” from the Slovak side. The warning action lasted one hour.
This was reported by the Slovak publication Aktuality.
Slovak carriers expressed support for their Polish colleagues, who have been protesting for several days against the liberalization of EU rules for Ukrainian trucks.
Truckers blocked the road to the crossing with cars.
“We will close it for an hour as a warning. Our goal is to support our Polish colleagues, as well as all carriers within the EU. We will ask the European Commission to immediately introduce transport permits for Ukrainian transport, because European companies cannot compete with them,” he said President of UNAS Stanislav Skala.
Slovak carriers said they would wait seven days for a response. If she is absent, they threaten to completely close the checkpoint. Stanislav Skala hinted that his Hungarian colleagues were also preparing similar events.
“The blockade did not affect the activities of the Wysne-Niemeckie customs branch,” Katarina Dankova, spokesperson for the Kosice Customs, told TASR after the protest.
UNAS does not agree with the order of the European Commission, which canceled the issuance of entry permits for Ukrainian carriers into the EU after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops.
Earlier, press secretary of the State Border Service of Ukraine Andriy Demchenko said that traffic on the border with Slovakia in the direction of our state continues. Slovak border guards did not announce any impending blocking of the border with Ukraine.
Let us remind you that on November 6, a strike of Polish carriers began at the border. It was reported that the movement of freight transport was blocked in the direction of the Yagodin-Dorogusk, Krakovets-Korcheva, and Rava-Russkaya-Grebnoye checkpoints.
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