Lithuania has officially announced the cessation of transit through its territory of railway carriages leased by Russian companies, in particular JSC Federal Freight Company (FGK), as reported on April 14 on the website of the Kaliningrad Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
The chairman of the Committee on Transport and Customs Policy of the Kaliningrad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Sergei Zavorotynsky, explained that the new rules exclusively affect wagons owned by FGC, which are leased to other companies. “If you look at the details, cars of the ‘Federal Transport Company’ rented by other organizations can no longer enter the territory of Lithuania.”, – he said. On the other hand he stressed that FGK is not subject to international sanctions.
Lithuania’s decision to block access to FGK cars on its territory is part of a broader picture in relations between the countries and their neighbors. This is a continuation of a series of restrictions that began in February, when Lithuania banned the entry into its territory of railcars from another large operator, PJSC TransContainer. According to Zavorotynsky, the total number of cars that are not available for transporting goods in the direction of Kaliningrad amounts to several tens of thousands. “We cannot say that transporters are completely deprived of the possibility of finding rental cars, but there is no doubt that the market has shrunk considerably and the supply has decreased.”“, concluded Zavorotynsky.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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