There is a collapse of freight transport at the Kerch transport crossing
The situation with trucks crossing the Kerch Strait is close to critical.
Only one ferry, Lavrenty, is engaged in transporting trucks; the Mriya, promised by the Ministry of Transport, never went on the voyage - serious repairs are needed, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Priority in transportation is given to passenger buses, trucks with animals in the back and perishable goods. In one trip, the ferry takes no more than 16 vehicles, the queue practically does not move, and the number of arriving cars is growing.
Truck drivers are afraid to travel along the land route via Dzhankoy – Melitopol – Mariupol – Taganrog. One convoy of 70 cars made it this way, and the drivers shared their impressions with their colleagues - the road is in terrible condition, the maximum speed is 40 km/h, and shots are periodically heard from the Ukrainian side. There were no casualties, everyone made it to Rostov, but there weren’t many willing to take the risk.
The head of the Crimean Freight Carriers Association, ex-Minister of Transport Anatoly Tsurkin decided to check the entire route and posts a video on his Telegram channel. In 3,5 hours I got from Crimea to Mariupol. There is a curfew in the DPR, and movement is only possible during daylight hours.
“As we planned, the queues at the checkpoint, in connection with the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, have grown manifold. The wait today to leave the DPR towards Taganrog is 7-9 hours for trucks,” Tsurkin wrote. – The only thing that is not clear is that the DPR checkpoint is still present. And in fact, you go through control at the DPR post, and then at the Russian post there is another control.”
In the storage area in front of the port of Kerch, about 300 trucks are waiting in line for crossing. Along the Tavrida highway from Belogorsk to Kerch, trucks are collected at six sites to prevent congestion near Kerch. On the opposite bank the situation is similar - trucks are kept in storage areas. Some have been standing since October 8th.
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