Passengers will be forced to pay for crossing the border with Crimea by train
Moscow - Simferopol, December 17 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Russian government is deciding how to compensate for the losses of the Crimean Railway (KZD) in connection with the refusal of Ukrzaliznytsia to pay for the passage of trains through the territory of the peninsula. As became known “To Kommersant”, losses of the KZD will have to be compensated by passengers and shippers by paying a special fee when crossing the border. The amount of the fee has not yet been determined, but it could be approximately 800 rubles. per person.
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One of Kommersant’s interlocutors in the Russian government says that the amount of the fee has not been calculated. According to his estimates, it could be about 800 rubles. from the passenger and will be collected by the Crimean border service, “the final amount will depend on the route and distance.” “The procedure will be as follows: a conductor enters the train and cleans up the passengers,” says another source of the publication close to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. According to him, a fee will be charged in the same way for cargo arriving at the station.
The publication recalls that tickets for trains formed by the Kazan Railway have already become more expensive due to the transition of Crimea to the Russian accounting system, according to which the international tariff is applied to Ukraine. Thus, the cost of a compartment ticket for the Kerch-Kyiv train starts from 810 rubles. increased to 2,3 thousand rubles. One of the publication’s interlocutors says that “an announcement about the introduction of an additional fee for trains traveling through Crimea appeared in the KR ticket office back in October, but then suddenly disappeared.” According to him, it concerned only citizens of Ukraine.
According to the head of the Infoline-Analytics agency, Mikhail Burmistrov, the total volume of cargo transportation from Ukraine to Crimea now does not exceed 100 thousand tons per month, with the share of railway transportation accounting for less than 30%. These are mainly food products and consumer goods, the expert says. The introduction of customs posts has already led to an increase in the price of goods imported from Ukraine, and additional fees will only negatively affect the demand for rail transportation, Mr. Burmistrov believes.
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