At a press gathering held in Warsaw before the European Commission's Representation, representatives of the transport manufacture gathered on the Committee for the Defence of Transport Carriers and Employers at the conference announced the extension of the protest on the Polish-Ukrainian border to another transition to Medica. This event planned for the beginning of the coming week is another step in the demonstration of carriers who express their discontent and request the re-establishment of transport permits from Ukraine.
Their decision to extend the protest to another border crossings is simply a continuation of their persistent efforts to take account of their demands. Transporters, who are members of this committee, emphasise their position towards the European Commission, seeking to actively influence the restoration of permits for transport from Ukraine, which would be beneficial for the full transport industry.
This extension of the protest to Medica aims to item the increasingly tense situation in the transport sector, where the deficiency of permits for transport from Ukraine negatively affects many aspects of the functioning of this sector. beginning up another transition to the protest is simply a way to escalate their appeal and show a firm attitude in trying to change the current situation.
Extensive protest at the border
At the moment, protests proceed at the crossings in Hrebenn and Dorohusk, Lublin Voivodeship. Rafał Mekler, a carrier from this region, stressed that Slovak carriers express solidarity with Polish colleagues. As part of the informing protest, they took action in the German-Ukrainian-Slovak border crossing close Uzhhorod.
During the press conference of the Committee for the Defence of Transport Carriers and Employers, the plan to apply to the EC Representation in Poland was signalled. This proposal concerns the "resumption of commercial transport permits for vehicles from Ukraine", bearing in head the always worse situation in the Polish transport sector. Transporters stressed that the transport sector represents 6% of Poland's GDP, employs over 1 million people and transfers PLN 16 billion annually to national and local budgets. The main reason for the crisis was the EU-Ukraine agreement, which abolished commercial transport licences from Ukraine.
Mekler, in an interview with PAP, presented numbers related to permits for transport between Poland and Ukraine. Before the war, there were about 360,000 permits, divided between both sides. It is estimated that in the first half of the year more than 600 1000 transports were carried out, and now this figure reaches around 1 million, of which the share of Polish carriers is only about 5%.
In addition, markets were lost, which were previously operated by Polish carriers specified as Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Mongolia.
Transporters request "symmetrical access" to the Ukrainian market. Mekler noted a immense difference in costs between Polish and Ukrainian carriers, where labour costs in Ukraine are around $100, while in Poland they scope 8 times higher level.
During the gathering with the Minister of Infrastructure, the carriers proposed to divided the transport permits in a proportion of 60 to 40 in favour of Ukraine. In addition, they request that humanitarian and military services be excluded from the licence limit system. They propose that these transports are now being passed during border blocking.
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