“It scared our customers away and many of them have already started shipping their goods through other countries, they don’t want to use our services. The services of terminals, warehouses, Lithuanian ports, not the services provided by haulers. The situation is not good, it is dangerous,” Algimantas Kondrusevičius, president of the Lithuanian national road carriers’ association, Linava, told the daily.
“It’s not possible to avoid the restrictions by legal means. A solid partner in Russia will not put his business at risk in order to import Lithuanian goods...,” Giedrius Bagušinskas, director of the Lithuanian Food Exporters Association, told the daily.
“We have a plant in the region of Kaliningrad and a shipping company registered there. Just one or two trucks coming from plants in Lithuania will be subject to extra checks per week,” Visvaldas Matijošaitis, chairman of Lithuania’s food group Vičiūnai, said.
Last week, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs send a note to Russia, protesting the excessively thorough customs checks.
