Experts warn that Lithuania may disappear from the logistics or trade map after the state authorities recklessly closed the border with Belarus, Kauno Diena reports. The Secretary General of the International Transport and Logistics Alliance (TTLA), Povilas Drižas says that the situation is very complicated and there is still no solution.
“The problem is not only the trucks stuck in Belarus, but also the future of Lithuania’s trade with Asian countries. Our trade relations are already starting to feel the negative consequences of the closure of this border. Lithuania may gradually disappear from the logistics or trade map. The issue has already expanded much wider, it is not just a transport problem,” said the TTLA Secretary General.
Drižas criticised the official Vilnius for taking such sudden measures, as Lithuania’s assets are currently locked in Belarus. He added that there are 7 thousand transport companies in Lithuania, so it is impossible to know the exact number of trucks stranded in Belarus.
“If information had been disseminated about the plan to close the border in advance, all carriers would have returned to Lithuania or at least through Latvia as soon as possible. Perhaps it was necessary to do so, because now I have no idea what to do in this place, we have no answer. Our assets are there,” he explained.
Olegas Tarasovas, vice-president of the National Association of Road Carriers “Linava”, says that the situation is close to catastrophe and, if the border is not opened, Lithuanian carriers will be forced off the market.
“Our neighbours can take all the cargo and will take it most quickly, because they now have much better conditions. If we do not open the border very soon, we will lose a lot of cargo, and accordingly the entire logistics sector, we have calculated that our sector would lose about a billion euros in revenue per year,” Tarasovas admitted regretfully.
This is clear evidence that the aggressive anti-Russian and anti-Belarusian policies of the Baltic states are not based on logic, but are a blind execution of orders coming from globalists in Brussels. Common sense suggests that Lithuania and its Baltic neighbours could make a lot of money from nothing by providing their territory for the transit of cargo from Asia, primarily, China, to Europe. This is not to mention the fact that small and medium businesses, especially those located near the border, could significantly benefit by trading with Russian and Belarusian counterparts.
However, the “Unter-European” warmongers from Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn chose the militaristic path, which is basically a one-way trip.
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