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lukoil supermarkets cafes and grocery delivery. since the end of february, passengers on moscow-kaliningrad flights have been flying to the westernmost region of the country about 50 minutes longer than usual and, due to sanctions, european skies are closed to russian airlines, which now use a different route through the baltic sea. it's actually a minor inconvenience. it is even difficult to name the problem, especially against the background of the news that appeared on june 17 that lithuania already has many existing agreements prohibiting transit through its territory, the so-called sanctioned goods, and this list included almost half of the goods that go to the kaliningrad region and from big russia and in the opposite direction. to

appreciate the scale of the problem, just look at the map, the kaliningrad region of the russian ex-head, which does not border on any of the other regions of the country and most of the goods are brought back and forth in transit via the lithuanian railway and the ban on the transit of half of this cargo traffic looks like an attempt by transport blockades of the russian region with a population of more than a million people, especially considering that the list of prohibited, for example, has already included such important goods for the economy as wood, metal, almost all building materials, and in the future , the transportation of coal, oil and oil products will be banned, of course, uh, the situation is not very pleasant hmm, it’s true, it’s not impossible to say that it is unexpected, but about 40-50%, e of the goods that we bring to the region from the main territory of the russian federation, we, in one way or another, get here are the restrictions. and we will also need to

reorient their transportation to this sea route, which connects the leningrad region and will now also connect st. petersburg with ports in the kaliningrad region. this is baltiysk well, actually, the port itself, kaliningrad, the interest of all uh sanctions that are imposed on the russian economy is to deprive enterprises of the competitiveness and increase their cost, and uh, these are the decisions that have been made recently. they are targeted. uh, just for this, uh, logistics increase in cost logistics. of course, this is also an increase in the cost of production for the end consumer, if the ban on transit via bluetooth continues, then the only option that remains for the transportation of innovative cargo in the kaliningrad region. this is a sea route, how transport restrictions will affect the life of the russian ex-float. will there be enough port facilities to replace the railway, and if there is a threat of a shortage of goods in the very western region of the country?

the restrictions on transit through lithuania concern not only railway, but also road transport, and somehow suspiciously synchronously with the new bans , a huge traffic jam formed on the russian-lithuanian border. there are about 150 of them here. there is an assumption that the current problems of russian truckers are at the border. this is just an additional bonus from the lithuanian authorities to the ban on the transit of trucks standing in line do not carry goods from the sanctions list, at least their driver is very confident about this, and many

heavy trucks generally go empty from kaliningrad lithuanian customs officers actively deployed russian truckers, only the first 2-3 days. after the emergence of new bans on transit now. there is simply no reason for this. you see here in general a lot of people are turned around. i don't know. now i was on the last flight with our four cars, where did they come from moscow and turned around with metal? and they went back to moscow to unload. the truck driver we spoke to at the russian-lithuanian border. at that time, they had been standing in line for about a day. and judging by what the speed of this traffic jam was still moving, at least the same amount of truckers had to spend in it. well, it sort of melted away. here is one time. now. here again it is going on the sly, the campaign, the lithuanians deliberately slow down. it seems that everything started with x-rays for everyone in a row for x-rays, they drove here then it was just

standing there right behind the place of the track. that is, here, how they don’t work here, you won’t understand here . yes, well, in the car. what is there not 5 minutes, that is, each car, as long as back and forth. it's all worth it, in fact, there are no objective reasons for such queues to now appear on the russian-lithuanian border. just no number of trucks. those wishing to cross the checkpoint cannot be called beyond the limit and, most likely, this traffic jam appeared due to a sharp slowdown in the speed of the lithuanian customs and it is not difficult to guess. why did this happen over the past day, 233 vehicles were allowed to enter the russian federation exit 230 vehicles. first, a new shift 12 is issued for entry 13 for exit. in connection with the not very rhythmic fence,

there is an accumulation of queues from the marginal side. you see, there are about 150 vehicles in front of the checkpoint, there are about 30 vehicles on the border side, saying, kaliningrad transit, it should be noted that lithuania passes russian cargo through its territory. not just out of kindness, but firstly, because, for example, lithuanian railways are excellent they earned and are earning on this very transliteration, and secondly, there are obligations not to impede transit both in bilateral agreements between russia and in agreements between russia and the european union. first commitment. this is not only lithuanian, but also the uh obligations of the european union when joining the baltic states to the european union were non-mesites were legal obligations. they are recorded in the documents in no way impede any transit. human, or, respectively, cargo and or energy e in

our region, so, uh, legal obligations. they violated their own with such decisions. this is the first second who violated, because there is one here . uh. a certain feeling, information- information flow develops. what means? it's kind of like at first there was a message that the lithuanians violated it. yes, then the lithuanians say that yes, no, the european commission forced us to do this. so the first. uh, this decision was made by the european commission. uh, decisions in the european commission are made by consensus voting. all twenty seven in my opinion, yes, members of the european union, that is, lithuania is of course responsible for the decisions that were made by the european union, because it voted for them. and all the more strange that lithuania is about its closest neighbors and represented by our region. uh, he forgets to whom to whom, and they would need to remember about the factor of kaliningrad transit and about the features of our region. so these excuses are in my opinion. well, victor fominsky

, the logistics director of the largest transport operator in the kaliningrad region, who is now in the company specializes in road and rail transport and is now forced to restructure its work on an emergency basis. how to reduce the number of cars and trains that go to greater russia and offer customers combined transportation options both by rail and sea. in fact, the situation is very tense, and, of course, the republic of lithuania has added additional problems, but in fact the situation has been difficult for several months now. that is, we adapt every day to the newly emerging as a limitation, we will come up with new schemes for the delivery of goods, so the situation with lithuania, of course, for us, was a certain surprise. but to be honest, we were ready for this, so we

continue our work. we are forced. unfortunately , a lot of new actions to restore the supply chain reassure customers, but in general the company continues to work and i am sure that we will take out all the goods of our customers in one way or another. in fact, kaliningrad logistics companies have problems with the transportation of goods through the territory of european countries began even before the lithuanian ban on transit but then these problems concerned transportation between countries, and between regions of one state, as fominsky says 3 months ago. poland, on a formal pretext, actually stopped the transit of russian goods. moreover, these cargoes have not been subject to sanctions since march . we felt the first restrictions associated with the fact that we could not carry it. uh, export cargo from kaliningrad to europe

since, uh, the customs authorities of poland imposed a-a requirements, increased control over all exported exported goods, and the territory of the kaliningrad region and these requirements could not be met. and the so -called full inspection of cargo with full unloading at border crossings. and poland kaliningrad on the polish side there is no infrastructure for holding these events, that is, our practice shows that we have come across once, but to follow, let's say, these requirements. eventually. uh, it resulted in the cost of one container about 10.000 euros took several days. that's when we are talking about a whole train of 44 containers. we understand that this is becoming simply impossible. the factory

of the famous kaliningrad entrepreneur max ibragimov is engaged in the production of luxury furniture, mainly to order. ibragimov runs this business. it's been 30 years now. and, of course, all processes here are somehow tied to uninterrupted logistics, some component enterprises import from other countries, including some european ones imported from different regions countries, the finished product is already going in the opposite direction, enough for one and a half to two places. still stocked up. yes, well, i think, during this time in a month and a half, something will probably be decided . there is no need to panic, because we will panic from the fact that we will do it. yes, and nothing will change. i think that we will arrange the logistics anyway, because

a person's thought works well under tension. here we find now e to pick up our goods from europe through other countries we find. anyway, we go around anyway, because people are like that, they are always something. until the beginning of last year, almost all of its cargoes of the ibragimov company transported the level, in order to get, say, to moscow from kaliningrad, the car must first pass the russian lithuanian border, then the lithuanian belarusian border and through the territory of belarus again enter russia in the second half 2020. lithuanian customs reacted very sensitively to the changing political situation. and on the border of the baltic side from belarus there were huge queues such that cars stood for several days from about this since then, ibragimov's company has begun transporting about 70% of its cargoes by sea. and it has already begun , not now. and somewhere for a year and a half,

all these interruptions began. ah, deliveries. there, queues at the borders of the like, we already gradually switched to the ferry a year ago, because yes, it was longer and more expensive, but it was stably possible to take it to the client, that is, all the cars got stuck there on the belarusian-lithuanian border. you see, not so kaliningrad lithuanian but, there were cars for 10 to 15 days at the end of last year by road transport. almost 3 million tons of kaliningrad cargo was transported, another 10 million tons were brought by rail . that is, with the ban on transit through lithuania almost half of the goods that went to the kaliningrad region or in the opposite direction, the only alternative to the railway is the sea route now on the service route, baltiysk, that is , four ships operate from leningrad to leningrad region and it is clear that in the near future time, the number of such

ferries should increase significantly. at the port of baltiysk that 40 km from kaliningrad comes most of the cargo that is sent by sea from big russia, the number of ships on the service line, baltiysk at first doubled in 2022, six months ago two cargo ferries operated on the route. at the end of january they were put into operation. here is the new ship. marshal rokossovsky railway ferry transports goods in railway wagons, as well as, depending on the free space of its cargo decks, and on the eve of the equipment, trucks, cars , any construction equipment, that is, conditionally speaking, all these ferries are able to transport. uh. here is that list. uh, it means goods that

are called sanctions. yes real ferries can carry any kind of cargo. uh, starting with consumer goods, ending with liquid cargo in railway tanks and as fuels and lubricants, for example, the fourth vessel on the service route, baltiysk dry cargo ship ursamajor it was transferred to the baltic from the black sea in april of this year, there is practically no rush demand, but ferries run with 100% load, the multifunctional vessel ursa meydzher has a reserve for e-loading, and work is underway to attract additional cargo there. is it still in the state or technical capacity of e-board? uh, let's just say, are they ready for an increase? a-a commodity flow, uh? the technical capacity of our ferry terminal allows us to receive additional ferries and additional ferries,

apparently there will be. if the current situation with the ban on transit through lithuania does not change, the four ships currently operating on the route will not be able to transfer the entire volume of sanctioned cargo. the fifth comes out on friday. here in this one, and on the line, it is still differently estimated from three to six ships. it may be necessary that these are available in the baltic, and we will actually start working with the ministry of transport and with carriers. actually the fifth ship. i already said it's out. and here are some more ships. they are preparing to put on a line that will serve the port or the leningrad region to connect with our region and the large port of st. petersburg. it will also connect with kaliningrad should be enough, respectively, this should not enough volume. in addition, as

anton alikhanov, governor of the kaliningrad region, says , the optimization of cargo traffic is also carried out manually, that is, the so -called non-sanctioned goods are transferred from sea transport to the railroad, and sanctioned goods, respectively, in the opposite direction, it is clear that in the first few days of the ban on transit through lithuania with a huge list of goods, no real shortage in any industry could physically appear. well, as is often the case, prices for some positions have increased just because of the panic, representatives of the construction business were the first to feel it in kaliningrad. aleksey snegur restores historical buildings and builds low-rise housing. he says cement prices in the region soared in just a couple of days. the price changes and because of this it is impossible to add up the cost of construction and it is impossible to predict. that is, for example, uh, roughly speaking, if an apartment is being built here, here, uh, low-rise construction and apartment buildings. yes, that is, it is very difficult now to deduce the cost

square meter, because it is not clear how much we will buy cement tomorrow, that is, or 200 rubles. either 500 or 1,000 price spikes for a variety of commodities are always similar, something similar happened to sugar all over the country. at the end of february at the beginning of march, there is a panic of rush demand and suppliers who hold goods, thereby accelerating the price of large suppliers that they start. well we are facing. i can, well, i won't call. but that means they have the material, they don't sell it. uh, specially hold on warehouses. why because what does it mean? uh, they are afraid that they will not be able to start. this is the second time, even if they put it out they bought it, they bought it at the old price somewhere in russia, yes, they immediately set a new price here, the situation with cement is, unfortunately, not exactly new for us.

we had the same situation in march until the beginning of april, it lasted, because many were frightened by these same sanctions. and, for example, they did not carry cement. uh, by rail. for some reason, they could not get on the ferry there, and the cement was very strongly, firstly, has grown. secondly, some speculation began. someone bought in large quantities. there, i resold through online stores and used it all, and, uh, we had to manually just with a eurocent and with one of the big buyers in the region to resolve the issue of arranging deliveries, organizing packaging in the region immediately and start selling in one of the large stores, yes, and then immediately all the other stores, too, so to speak, followed this example and began to exhibit in the right way. well let's say so the market price, uh goods in the store. so i can repeat this again. uh, we might have

some little delays there. uh, in order to bring an additional line here, but we definitely won’t allow any kind of deficit. that is, this is not the situation when you have to wring your hands and say to shout everything is gone. it's quite manageable. eh, problem. it's unpleasant, but that doesn't mean it can't be overcome. we will definitely solve it and we are already solving it. if we take out the signs of recent times, huge queues at the border with lithuania and other hours-long inspections of goods, then , compared with the railway or road transport, the delivery time by sea is noticeably longer, and the price of services is much higher, but in the current situation for the kaliningrad region. this is perhaps the most reliable and stable mode of transport, despite the transfer cost up to two times. e will be more expensive, and transportation by sea ferry. well, at the same time, to the central part of russia, relatively speaking, there to moscow and to the moscow

region compared to land, but cargo, but this is the average figure again for some groups of goods more some less. we are working. of course, we assume that there will be a difference. e, pro subsidized and our business e or people. actually. most importantly, yes, those who live in the region should not feel through the change on july 23, the head of european diplomacy, joselle, made a significant statement about that. that the eu will check sanctions directives restricting transit to kaliningrad but even if nothing changes and the situation remains as it is today, no global shortage of goods, in the western region of the country, is not yet foreseen exactly.

and the main event to this minute in our news release is security issues, one of the main topics is the meeting between vladimir putin and alexander lukashenko , it took place, st. petersburg in the konstantinovsky palace on the eve of 30 years of bilateral relations. they also discussed the special operation in ukraine the union state the development of cooperation and the situation with sanctions alexander lukashenko answered the attempt to isolate kaliningrad by lithuania is unacceptable also said that questions are coming to the fore defense.