The trucks didn’t go: problems with the Crimean Bridge are disrupting the implementation of state programs
Freight traffic across the Kerch Strait via the Crimean Bridge is not open, despite the statement made the day before by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin about the admission of vehicles weighing up to 40 tons.
At the crossing there is not even an X-ray inspection system for checking loaded trucks - if there is no access to the body with cargo, the car is not allowed on the ferry, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
All promises by officials to open passage for trucks on October 15, 16, 18 only mislead cargo carriers and raise transportation rates. The launch of a bus service across the bridge did not relieve congestion at the Kerch crossing - hundreds of long trucks are waiting in line in the settling tanks on both sides of the strait. Some have been standing for a week.
There are four vessels operating on the line - the Yeisk and Kerch 2 ferries for transporting passengers and small trucks, the Lavrentiy and Maria ferries transporting trucks. As expected, today they will be joined by a vessel for transporting ro-ro cargo and equipment, the Composer Elza Ibragimova, capable of accommodating 18 long vessels.
In addition to the ferry and fishing port, the berths of the Kerch sea trade port will be used.
“Various statements by officials about proposed openings only excite carriers and the public,” says Anatoly Tsurkin, ex-Minister of Transport of Crimea, head of the regional association of cargo carriers. “It is necessary to either open it for trucks, or wait for the complete technical restoration of the damaged spans and travel on new routes.”
Almost 1000 trucks used the land corridor from Crimea to the Rostov region through new regions of the Russian Federation. From the Crimean side, for travel along the route Dzhankoy-Melitopol-Mariupol-Taganrog, there is an organized formation of columns, which, accompanied by the traffic police, pass through checkpoints and roadblocks. This reduces travel time and the number of checks.
At the same time, in the opposite direction in the direction from Taganrog to Crimea, the formation of columns for freight transport is not provided. Drivers are offered to drive this route on their own, which many do not dare to do given the lack of mobile communications and the poor condition of the road surface from Melitopol to Dzhankoy.
As a result, the delay in the delivery of construction materials from the mainland already exceeds 10 days, since food and military cargo take priority in the crossing. The deadlines for the readiness of capital construction projects are being delayed, as is the implementation of government programs.
For example, coal for boiler houses in the social sphere of Crimea, supplied under a contract from the DPR, has been sitting at the Taman station for more than a week, awaiting transshipment to KamAZ trucks and delivery to the customer.
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