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Troubles - Finland/Russian Border
* Finland -
Russian Customs partly to blame for lorry backlogHelsingi,Finland -The Helsingin Sanomat -11 Set 2006: -- Russia's Minister of Transport Igor Levitin has conceded that the Russian Customs Service is one of the reasons for the chronic backlog of trucks at the Russian border... Another factor stretching out the lines of trucks is the almost exponential growth in goods traffic between the two countries... Earlier in the week the line of lorries queueing to enter Russia via the Vaalimaa border crossing further south exceeded 40 kilometres... (Photo by LEIF ROSAS - The backlog of lorries waiting to cross into Russia at the Vaalimaa border station had eased by Wednesday afternoon. Nevertheless it was still about 20 kilometres long)
* Finaland - Finnish haulage companies declare boycott of Vaalimaa crossing
Helsingi,Finland -The Helsingin Sanomat -7 Set 2006: -- A group of Finnish trucking companies declared a boycott of the Vaalimaa crossing between Finland and Russia on Wednesday... The firms concerned are tired of constant backlogs of trucks, which they see as a serious security risk to their drivers and vehicles... In response to the repeated delays, they said that they would refuse to bring goods to or from the Vaalimaa goods terminal... (Picture: Highway 7 is the main route to Russia along the south coast. Suomi = Finland, Venäjä = Russia)
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