The Finnish hauliers' lobby joined Anu Vehvilainen, the transport minister, in rejecting a proposal by Russia's Federal Customs Service to shift most of the country's container shipping off the roads and onto the railways and vessels, Skrin reported.
"It is rather impossible to shift container shipping onto the railways and ships given that nearly all of it is currently being shipped by road," said Antti Seppala of Finnish Transport and Logistics (SKAL), an organisation that represents operators and companies that transport goods by road.
"It would certainly result in chaos, at least in the short term," he added, hinting that border officials at Russian ports and railway crossing would not be able to cope with the workload increase.
Russian Customs have proposed shipping containers in excess of 20 feet directly to Russian ports or by rail through neighbouring countries like Finland. |
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Source: cargonewsasia
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